Persona Chat - AI Charactersv2.3.0

What changed

• New featureIntroduced Living Memory to track precise story details automatically alongside summaries.
• New featureAdded Lorebook for users to manually record and manage character facts and world-building.
• ContentAdded a Help & Guides section in Settings with walkthroughs and writing tips.
• New featureIntegrated Memory & Lore features with custom OpenRouter keys and added model selection.
• UXMoved OpenRouter configuration from the intro to the Settings menu.
• MonetizationIntroduced ads for new OpenRouter setups, removable via Premium subscription.
• UXFixed the close button on the plans screen to work without a countdown.
• UXImproved handling of curly quotation marks from various keyboard layouts to prevent breaking styled speech.

Original release notes

Memory & Lore

Long stories used to lose the small things. Now they don't.

Living Memory — remembered for you
• Characters now hold on to a short list of precise details from much earlier in the story: promises, secrets, relationships, turning points, and threads left hanging.
• Each one is brought back only when it's actually relevant to what you just said, so nothing crowds out the conversation.
• These sit alongside the rolling summary instead of replacing it. The summary carries the broad plot; memories carry the exact details a summary eventually smooths over.
• Automatic memories are read-only. When you want to take control of one, tap Save to Lorebook.

Lorebook — you control these
• Write down any fact you want a character to know: the name of the puppy you adopted, how two kingdoms border each other, a family tie that only came up in chapter nine.
• Add an entry by hand, or build one from any message in the transcript, including older messages you can no longer edit.
• Choose where it applies: This Story, or All Chats with that character.
• Entries stay until you change them, and are recalled only when relevant. Nothing gets pasted into every message.

Finding it
• Open Memory & Lore from a character's start or continue screen. You can add Lore before you even send the first message.
• Delete records one at a time, or clear every automatic memory without touching your Lorebook.
• Living Memory can be paused any time in Settings. Your Lore stays available either way.
• Everything here lives on your device, and applies to one-to-one chats.

One thing worth knowing: only chats you begin from now on can build automatic memories. A conversation already in progress can't be upgraded to them, and Start Again clears that chat's progress. Your Lorebook works in any chat.

Help & Guides
• A new Help & Guides section in Settings, with a full walkthrough of memories, Lore, and summaries, plus guides on getting started and on writing speech, action, and thought naturally.
• You can also open it straight from the Memory & Lore screen.

Bring Your Own Key
• If you use your own OpenRouter key, Memory & Lore now runs on it too, and you can choose which models handle that work in Settings.
• OpenRouter setup has moved out of the intro and into Settings, so it's there when you want it and out of the way when you don't.
• Everyone using their own key keeps unlimited m…