extracted some user specific ERC settings into a sample

personal-erc.el that others can use in their personal Prelude folder

samples/personal-erc.el

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+;; Join the a couple of interesting channels whenever connecting to Freenode.
+(setq erc-autojoin-channels-alist '(("freenode.net"
+                                     "#emacs" "#ruby" "#lisp" "#clojure"
+                                     "#scala" "#haskell")))
+;; set your nickname
+(setq erc-nick "bozhidar")
+
+;; share your username (optional)
+(setq erc-user-full-name "Bozhidar Batsov")
+
+;; auto identify
+(when (file-exists-p (expand-file-name "~/.ercpass"))
+  (load "~/.ercpass")
+  (require 'erc-services)
+  (erc-services-mode 1)
+  (setq erc-prompt-for-nickserv-password nil)
+  (setq erc-nickserv-passwords
+        `((freenode ((erc-nick . ,erc-pass))))))