Assistants API, I don't understand what has happened

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I have a Unity app whereby I can talk to an NPC, the NPC is using Assistants API for making conversation with me. I prefer this API as it has a better recall of facts. Even so, I am opting to create a new thread each time my app starts, rather than continuing on the same thread, for reasons of performance and cost. At the start of each new execution of my app, I feed the Assistant a brief summary.txt of our previous conversations so it has a long term memory. I realise just continuing the thread would do this but as I said, I create a new thread and make runs on that.

Something just happened I don’t understand. I deleted my summary.txt that I usually feed the NPC so it starts with no previous knowledge of me (remember, I’m creating a new Assistant and a new thread every time my app is executed). But the NPC just asked me a question relating to a previous conversation! When I asked it when did it learn this about me (I have added date/times to the summary of facts it learns), it replied 25th November 2023!

I have checked my apps files (the summary.txt etc), there’s nothing in there. So how did it know this?

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You probably hit an edge case or it is bugged. Did you try creating a new agent from scratch and did you get the same results?

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Everytime my app runs a new agent and thread is created. The instruction is the same, but it’s still new. Interestingly it can’t recall other facts I had previously told it, just this 1 fact (that I own a Ducati motorbike :smiley: ). Yeh must be a bug or something. Just surprised me. I might start continuing on the same thread id anyway now instead.

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oh, so it might just be that uploading and updating documents might take a few minutes to happen. I think that on playground you can see the uploaded files. First time I uploaded a file it took several minutes. Maybe that’s the issue? You remove it, but since it was update 5 minutes ago you start getting the results of what the file look like 5 minutes earlier? idk, but good luck!

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Thanks but it wasn’t that because I am not uploading any documents, my app parses data from a text file, the data is then fed into the Assistants prompt. My text file was definitely empty as it knew no previous facts apart from 1. Quite strange :slight_smile: I think it’s just a bug or something.