heavensteeth 7 days ago

I'm not sure I'd appreciate this feature. When I used LLMs I found conversations got more difficult the longer they went on - I'd ask one question, then another, and it'd try its best to answer the latter in the context of the former in a way I didn't intend. I used new chats as an explicit way to escape this. I also created new chats when I felt the LLM was going down the "wrong path" or generally interpreting things obtusely.

  • Alifatisk 7 days ago

    I think you are supposed to open a new chat for every new subject/question. Longer chats means higher consumption of tokens.

    • czk 7 days ago

      I'm in the habit of always opening a new chat because I change subjects quite often, and the LLM tends to randomly reference a previous question with more weight than it should.

  • Vaslo 7 days ago

    Agree - it gets stuck sometimes and it just gets time to start over

syockit 8 days ago

That is strange, I thought this had always been the case. Long ago, I had a chat about feature selection and dimension reduction, and I expressed my preference of not resorting to PCA because it doesn't actually remove features. After some time, I had a new session chatting about multicollinearity and what adverse effects it might cause, and among the suggestions for addressing that, it suggested dimension reduction, saying "Although you don't prefer PCA ...".

  • siva7 7 days ago

    This is a separate feature called memories. It saves preferences for future chats you tell it to remember. These snippets can be viewed in your settings.

graboy 8 days ago

I wonder how this works? Are they just RAG-ing the chat history or something more clever?

  • siva7 8 days ago

    Likely the cheapest solution they could get at this scale, so yes, RAG

    • silvaring 7 days ago

      RAG with clever attention mechanisms?

richardatlarge 7 days ago

i’ve told it not to change my contractions a thousand times, still can’t remember

  • alphan0n 7 days ago

    Dick Large? Probably had trouble with the diminutive form.