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# Working Memory in Practice
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Working memory is particularly useful for:
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1. **Personal assistants** that need to remember user preferences
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2. **Customer support agents** that need to track issue details
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3. **Educational agents** that need to remember a student's progress
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4. **Task-oriented agents** that need to track the state of a complex task
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By using working memory effectively, you can create agents that feel more personalized and attentive to user needs.
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Here are some best practices for using working memory effectively:
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1. **Be selective about what goes into working memory**
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- Focus on information that will be relevant across multiple conversations
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- Don't overload working memory with transient details
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2. **Use clear instructions**
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- Give your agent explicit guidance on when and how to update working memory
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- Instruct it to check memory before asking for information the user has already provided
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3. **Design a thoughtful template**
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- Structure your template based on the specific needs of your agent
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- Include sections for different types of information
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- Use clear labels and organization to make information easy to find
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4. **Test thoroughly**
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- Verify that your agent correctly updates and retrieves information from working memory
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- Test edge cases like conflicting information or corrections
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In the next step, we'll bring everything together to create a complete memory-enhanced agent with all the features we've explored.
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