{
  "id": 5574858,
  "title": "How I Built SOULCHAT's Long-Term Memory with sentence-transformers",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/04/how-i-built-soulchats-long-term-memory-with-sentence-transformers",
  "topic": "tech",
  "section": "Tech",
  "published": "2026-09-04T14:23:51.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Dev.to",
    "slug": "dev-to",
    "url": "https://dev.to/soulchat_official/how-i-built-soulchats-long-term-memory-with-sentence-transformers-2gea"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "During the initial testing of SOULCHAT, the AI assistant was found to lack long-term memory. The reporter observed that after closing the conversation window and opening a new one the following day, the AI repeated the same question, as if the user had never been spoken to before. This realization led to the decision to develop a semantic memory system for SOULCHAT, aiming to store, retrieve, and recall user-shared information across sessions.",
  "summary": "The first time I tested SOULCHAT, I had the same conversation twice. I told the AI about a memory I wanted to preserve. It responded with warmth and understanding. I closed the window, opened a new one the next day, and it asked me the same question — as if we had never spoken. That was the moment I realized: if an AI companion can't remember you, it's not a companion. It's a search engine. So I…",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}