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Design a Long-Term Memory System

Design a memory system that lets an AI assistant remember user preferences, facts, and past conversations across sessions and use them when relevant.

MemoryRetrievalPersonalizationPrivacyGDPRForgetting

Key Requirements

  • Decide what is worth remembering, and what never to store
  • Keep facts consistent when a user's preferences change
  • Retrieve relevant memories without flooding or invalidating the context
  • Erase a user from every copy on request, and prove it
  • Stop wrong or planted memories from poisoning later answers

Interviewer Follow-ups

  • Q1How do you handle conflicting memories?
  • Q2How does the system comply with GDPR deletion requests?
  • Q3How do you avoid retrieving stale or outdated memories?
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