Building an AI companion with persistent memory — Redis + ChromaDB

📦 Full runnable example: github.com/sm1ck/honeychat/tree/main/tutorial/01-memory — clone, docker compose up , chat with the demo bot on Telegram. Every code snippet below is pulled from that repo. Most AI chatbots still struggle with reliable, queryable long-term recall. Character.AI has pinned and chat memories, but unpinned details can still fall out of the active conversation context. Replika remembers profile facts, preferences, and generated memories, but that is not the same as semantic r