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>>Josely+(OP)
I love this idea and it leads me to a question for everyone here.

I've done a bunch of user interviews of ChatGPT, Pi, Gemini, etc. users and find there are two common usage patterns:

1. "Transactional" where every chat is a separate question, sort of like a Google search... People don't expect memory or any continuity between chats.

2. "Relationship-driven" where people chat with the LLM as if it's a friend or colleague. In this case, memory is critical.

I'm quite excited to see how OpenAI (and others) blend usage features between #1 and #2, as in many ways, these can require different user flows.

So HN -- how do you use these bots? And how does memory resonate, as a result?

>>cl42+g4
Personally, I always expect every "conversation" to be starting from a blank slate, and I'm not sure I'd want it any other way unless I can self-host the whole thing.

Starting clean also has the benefit of knowing the prompt/history is in a clean/"known-good" state, and that there's nothing in the memory that's going to cause the LLM to get weird on me.