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What you’ll build: A production-ready chatbot with persistent memory, document knowledge, and conversation history.Time: 20 minutes | Difficulty: Intermediate

Overview

Most chatbots forget everything after each conversation. In this tutorial, you’ll build a chatbot that:
  • Remembers past conversations
  • Learns from documents you provide
  • Answers questions using its knowledge base
  • Gets smarter over time

Prerequisites

1

Install Dependencies

2

Set API Key


Step 1: Create the Memory Store

First, let’s create a memory file to store conversations and knowledge:

Step 2: Build the Conversation Manager

Create a class to manage conversations and memory:

Step 3: Create the Chatbot

Now let’s build the main chatbot class:

Step 4: Run the Chatbot

Create an interactive chat loop:

Step 5: Add Advanced Features

Conversation Summarization

Add automatic summarization for long conversations:

Topic Detection

Automatically tag conversations by topic:

Multi-Session Support

Handle multiple users/sessions:

Complete Code

Here’s the full implementation:

Deployment

As a FastAPI Service

With Docker


Next Steps

Document Q&A

Add PDF/document support

Knowledge Base

Build a searchable knowledge base

Research Assistant

Create an AI research assistant

LangChain Integration

Advanced RAG pipelines