Fix mention escaping in conversations due to non-ascii removal

cogs/gpt_3_commands_and_converser.py

@@ -934,10 +934,8 @@ class GPT3ComCon(discord.Cog, name="GPT3ComCon"):
                 response_text = response_text.strip()
                 response_text = f"***{prompt}***\n\n{response_text}"
 
-            # If GPT3 tries to ping somebody, don't let it happen
+            # If gpt3 tries writing a user mention try to replace it with their name
             response_text = await self.replace_mention(ctx, response_text)
-            # escape any other metnions
-            response_text = discord.utils.escape_mentions(response_text)
 
             # If the user is conversing, add the GPT response to their conversation history.
             if (
@@ -981,9 +979,12 @@ class GPT3ComCon(discord.Cog, name="GPT3ComCon"):
                     custom_api_key=custom_api_key,
                 )
 
-            # Cleanse
+            # Cleanse again
             response_text = self.cleanse_response(response_text)
 
+            # escape any other mentions like @here or @everyone
+            response_text = discord.utils.escape_mentions(response_text)
+
             # If we don't have a response message, we are not doing a redo, send as a new message(s)
             if not response_message:
                 if len(response_text) > self.TEXT_CUTOFF:

cogs/image_prompt_optimizer.py

@@ -74,6 +74,7 @@ class ImgPromptOptimizer(discord.Cog, name="ImgPromptOptimizer"):
         user = ctx.user
 
         final_prompt = self.OPTIMIZER_PRETEXT
+        # replace mentions with nicknames for the prompt
         final_prompt += await self.converser_cog.replace_mention(ctx, prompt)
 
         # If the prompt doesn't end in a period, terminate it.
@@ -100,7 +101,7 @@ class ImgPromptOptimizer(discord.Cog, name="ImgPromptOptimizer"):
             # also relatively cost-effective
 
             response_text = response["choices"][0]["text"]
-
+            # escape any mentions
             response_text = discord.utils.escape_mentions(response_text)
 
             response_message = await ctx.respond(