Replace roles.yaml with roles/<name>.md

[sigoden]

Instead of using a central roles.yaml file to store all the roles, we can use a dedicated roles folder. Each file within this folder would represent a single role, with the filename corresponding to the role's name.

Benefits

• Create/Edit a single role within the REPL
• Load on demand, resulting in less memory usage

REPL

• .role <name>: Create a new role if one doesn't exist
• .edit role: Edit the current role
• .save role: Save the current role to file

Options

---
model: openai:gpt-4
temperature: 0
top_p: 0
...
---

Your are a ...

[sigoden]

We provide a Python script to convert roles.yaml to roles/<name>.md

import yaml
import os

def convert(yaml_file, saved_dir):
    with open(yaml_file, 'r', encoding='utf-8') as f:
        yaml_content = f.read()

    data = yaml.safe_load(yaml_content)
    
    os.makedirs(saved_dir, exist_ok=True)

    for item in data:
        if 'name' not in item or 'prompt' not in item:
            continue  # Skip items that do not have the necessary fields

        name = item.pop('name').replace(':', '#')
        prompt = item.pop('prompt')
        
        markdown_file = os.path.join(saved_dir, f"{name}.md")

        metadata = ''
        if item:
            metadata = '---\n' + yaml.dump(item) + '---\n\n'
        
        with open(markdown_file, 'w', encoding='utf-8') as f:
            f.write(metadata + prompt)

convert("roles.yaml", "roles")

cd <aichat-config-dir>
python convert.py

[jiahut]

Confirm if there are any parameters that don't support __ARG1__ ?
I used the script locally and the original role included __ARG1__ failed to convert the role

[fmaida]

We provide a Python script to convert roles.yaml to roles/<name>.md

[ ... ]

Thank you for the script. However, please remind the viewers that this script requires the PyYAML library to be installed in order to work ( https://pypi.org/project/PyYAML/ ).

Since PyYaml is not included in the Python standard library by default, if you want to run this script from the command line, you will often need to enter the following commands:

cd <aichat-config-dir>
python -m venv .venv
source .venv/bin/activate  # if you use bash or zsh, if you are using Fish use "source .venv/bin/activate.fish"
pip install pyyaml
python convert.py
deactivate
rm -rf .venv

[xeruf]

Would be nice to have a link to this included when not finding a role for the next few versions, took me a while to get here after my existing roles unexpectedly stopped working

[xeruf]

aichat could also offer to automatically run the migration

small issue, this role is not correctly converted:

- name: convert:json:yaml
  prompt: convert __ARG1__ below to __ARG2__