However, due to the ambiguity of LLMs, a completely new Q&A session doesn't give the same "aha" feeling as the previous one.
I want to ask, does anyone else have trouble managing historical AI conversations like me? What do you all do when you encounter such problems? Are there any products on the market that are really good at managing chat history?
Suppose you have a hundred conversations that can be retained, how would you manage them?
For example at the moment I have 1 long chat about some health stuff, 1 long chat about some bicycle repairs I'm doing, and then the rest are one offs. I rename the long ones (or just remember the name) and they stay at the top because I find them when I need.
I also manage memories assertively. If there's something important that I'm tired of repeating I just ask it to add it to memory and it will do it.
Most of my professional work is done in cursor so it's in a different place to my personal questions. These usually are one chat per feature kind of thing, and start a new one when it gets confused with the enormous context
I used to ask an LLM for executive summaries by pasting an article URL into a fresh conversation each time. Now, I don't open a new thread or even write a follow-up comment on the same thread. Instead, I simply edit the prompt (of a single thread) with the new link.
poppobit•4mo ago
oliverchan2024•4mo ago
How much time does it take for you to clear chat history every week?
poppobit•4mo ago
I think whether to keep chats depends on your goal. I use AI mainly as a tool for work or quick problem-solving, so I don’t need to preserve long conversations. But if someone uses AI more like a friendly companion, I totally get why they’d want to keep the history.
When I get a really good answer, I save that text elsewhere and still delete the chat. That’s why my ChatGPT sidebar rarely has more than about 20 chats.
oliverchan2024•4mo ago
Sometimes I miss it, and when I go back to look, I almost can't find it back.