How I built memory for my desktop AI companion: every memory must quote the transcript

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<h1> How I built memory for my desktop AI companion: every memory must quote the transcript </h1> <p>Ankita is my open-source desktop AI companion — a little companion, a lot more possible. It lives on my machine, works while I'm away, and runs my models. This week I shipped its long-term memory, and the part I'm most proud of isn't that it remembers things. It's what it refuses to remember.</p> <p>The problem that scared me into this design: a companion that misremembers you is worse than one that forgets. If the model that writes memories is the same model that acts on them, you get a feedba

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<h1> How I built memory for my desktop AI companion: every memory must quote the transcript </h1> <p>Ankita is my open-source desktop AI companion — a little companion, a lot more possible. It lives on my machine, works while I'm away, and runs my models. This week I shipped its long-term memory, and the part I'm most proud of isn't that it remembers things. It's what it refuses to remember.</p> <p>The problem that scared me into this design: a companion that misremembers you is worse than one that forgets. If the model that writes memories is the same model that acts on them, you get a feedba

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<h1> How I built memory for my desktop AI companion: every memory must quote the transcript </h1> <p>Ankita is my open-source desktop AI companion — a little companion, a lot more possible. It lives on my machine, works while I'm away, and runs my models. This week I shipped its long-term memory, and the part I'm most proud of isn't that it remembers things. It's what it refuses to remember.</p> <p>The problem that scared me into this design: a companion that misremembers you is worse than one that forgets. If the model that writes memories is the same model that acts on them, you get a feedba

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How I built memory for my desktop AI companion: every memory must quote the transcript

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