KIPP

"Do not go gentle into that good night. Old age should burn and rave at close of ay. Rage, rage against the dying of the light." - Dylan Thomas

KIPP is an AI Assistant, named after one of the robots from the movie Interstellar. In the movie, KIPP detonates itself when interacted with. This repository is based on the provided project template for a greenfield Java project. Given below are instructions on how to use it.

Setting up in Intellij

Prerequisites: JDK 17, update Intellij to the most recent version.

1. Open Intellij (if you are not in the welcome screen, click File > Close Project to close the existing project first)
2. Open the project into Intellij as follows:
   1. Click Open.
   2. Select the project directory, and click OK.
   3. If there are any further prompts, accept the defaults.
3. Configure the project to use JDK 17 (not other versions) as explained in here.
   In the same dialog, set the Project language level field to the SDK default option.
4. After that, locate the src/main/java/kipp.java file, right-click it, and choose Run kipp.main() (if the code editor is showing compile errors, try restarting the IDE). If the setup is correct, you should see something like the below as the output:

   ██   ██ ██ ██████  ██████  
   ██  ██  ██ ██   ██ ██   ██ 
   █████   ██ ██████  ██████  
   ██  ██  ██ ██      ██      
   ██   ██ ██ ██      ██      
   Hi there, this is KIPP.
   How can I help?
   

Warning: Keep the src\main\java folder as the root folder for Java files (i.e., don't rename those folders or move Java files to another folder outside of this folder path), as this is the default location some tools (e.g., Gradle) expect to find Java files.

Citations & References

• The star background from the James Webb Space Telescope was taken from their Flickr page., and is permitted for non-commercial use as per the guidelines here
• References to KIPP and image icons were taken from the comic Absolute Zero
• GitHub Copilot was used as an auto-complete tool throughout this project.