memory = VectorStoreRetrieverMemory(retriever=retriever)
# When added to an agent, the memory object can save pertinent information from conversations or used tools
memory.save_context({"input": "My favorite food is pizza"}, {"output": "thats good to know"})
memory.save_context({"input": "My favorite sport is soccer"}, {"output": "..."})
memory.save_context({"input": "I don't the Celtics"}, {"output": "ok"}) # 
# Notice the first result returned is the memory pertaining to tax help, which the language model deems more semantically relevant
# to a 1099 than the other documents, despite them both containing numbers.
print(memory.load_memory_variables({"prompt": "what sport should i watch?"})["history"])
input: My favorite sport is soccer
output: ...
Using in a chain#
Let’s walk through an example, again setting verbose=True so we can see the prompt.
llm = OpenAI(temperature=0) # Can be any valid LLM
_DEFAULT_TEMPLATE = """The following is a friendly conversation between a human and an AI. The AI is talkative and provides lots of specific details from its context. If the AI does not know the answer to a question, it truthfully says it does not know.
Relevant pieces of previous conversation:
{history}
(You do not need to use these pieces of information if not relevant)
Current conversation:
Human: {input}
AI:"""
PROMPT = PromptTemplate(
    input_variables=["history", "input"], template=_DEFAULT_TEMPLATE
)
conversation_with_summary = ConversationChain(
    llm=llm, 
    prompt=PROMPT,
    # We set a very low max_token_limit for the purposes of testing.
    memory=memory,
    verbose=True
)
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