¶ Diary and Memories
¶ Diaries
Each AI NPC will have their own diary. The purpose of this is to provide a roleplaying tool that can generate an after-action-report of your entire Skyrim playthrough!
We mainly intend that your followers are the main NPCs who keep diaries. As they are around you the most and have the most intresting stories to tell based from their adventures with you.
We highly recommend that you maintain diary entries for at least 1-2 followers as it's honestly very neat seeing the tale of your adventures from their perspective.
It will use a non-JSON connector (CONNECTORS_DIARY) to generate a diary entry.
Diaries can be triggered in 2 ways.
- Auto Diary: You current followers will update their diary everytime you wait (you can disable the wait trigger) or sleep.
- MCM Hotkey: Press the hotkey for the person you are looking up to update their diary. Hold it for all nearby NPC's to update their diary.
Diary entries are logged as memories, so they will be used to create summarized memory entries.
When looking for memories, it won't search in the diary directly, but info from diary entries are used to create memories summaries.
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Memories
CHIM supports a memory system that will allow AI NPC’s to remember events that have happened in the past.
This is not a “perfect” memory system but will do a good enough job.
Due to how we track ingame time and events to sync with the server, we have to delete events that have happened in the "future". This is to prevent time paradoxes!
There are 2 ways memories are stored
- Single Memories
- Will pull memories from singular events that have been created. The “Events” menu acts as the memory bank as it will pull the most relevant event into the conversation. The “Memories” menu is still currently a work in progress so just ignore it for now.
- Summarized Memories
- If you enable “FEATURES MEMORY_EMBEDDING AUTO_CREATE_SUMMARYS” in the Config Wizard then memories will be created in batches from the most recent events. You can see this in the “Memories Summarized” menu. We would recommend this approach but it will use up tokens. It will use a non-JSON connector (CONNECTORS_DIARY) to generate a memory entry.
If you enable this halfway through a playthrough, you can use Sync & Create Memory Summaries to package all your previous events into the memory summary table. You do not need to use this button if you have AUTO_CREATE_SUMMARYS enabled.
- If you enable “FEATURES MEMORY_EMBEDDING AUTO_CREATE_SUMMARYS” in the Config Wizard then memories will be created in batches from the most recent events. You can see this in the “Memories Summarized” menu. We would recommend this approach but it will use up tokens. It will use a non-JSON connector (CONNECTORS_DIARY) to generate a memory entry.
Each AI NPC has their own “memory bank”. Each memory includes information about which AI NPC’s were present when the memory was created. An NPC may not recall a specific topic if they were not present during the event when the memory was created.
Memories will trigger on every user input, unless you use minime-t5.
Memory triggering with minime is semantic. Using sentences like I forgot the secret code, can you remind me? Do you remember…? I remember when… should trigger a memory search. Only those AI NPC’s who were present during the event can recall the specific details. AI NPC’s should “search” both into memories and diaries.
