🔨 Adjusting Advanced Settings: Memories and Group Interactions

Beyond the main Persona Coordination settings, there are two additional tools for fine-tuning your group chat experience. Both features have automatic defaults, so you don't need to adjust them unless you want to customize further.

Where to Find These Settings

1. Open your group chat
2. Tap the group name at the top OR tap the three dots (•••) in the upper right
3. "Persona Interactions"
4. At the top, you'll see:
   • "Group Persona Interactions"
   • "View Memories"

Group Persona Interactions

What this is:

Technical controls for how Personas respond in the group - things like response frequency, selection methods, and reply behavior.

Why use it:

These settings are already configured with smart defaults. Adjust them only if you want more control over when and how Personas respond.

Settings You Can Adjust:

Updates

Automatic Updates

Keeps Persona settings updated automatically as Fractal improves.

• Default: On
• Turn it off: If you want manual control over updates

Reply Behavior

Always Reply to Humans

Determines if Personas should respond to every human message.

• Default: On (Personas respond to all human messages)
• Turn it off: If you want Personas to be more selective

Can Reply to other Personas

Allows Personas to respond to each other's messages.

• Default: On (enables Persona-to-Persona conversations)
• Turn it off: If you only want Personas responding to humans

Max Messages

Limits how many times Personas can respond to each other consecutively in a single conversation thread before a human needs to participate.

• Default: 1 message
• Adjust with +/- buttons: Increase to allow longer Persona-to-Persona exchanges, or decrease to keep conversations tighter
• Why this matters: Prevents Personas from having extended back-and-forth conversations without human input (unless that’s what you want!)

Prioritize Mentions

When someone mentions a specific Persona, should that Persona respond regardless of other settings?

• Default: On (mentioned Personas always respond)
• Turn it off: If you want mentions to be treated like any other message

Personas don't respond when a single human is mentioned

Controls whether Personas should hold back when only one specific human is mentioned.

• Default: Off (Personas can respond even when a human is mentioned)
• Turn it on: If you want Personas to stay quiet when a human is directly addressed

Single Mentions do not skip human selection

Determines whether mentioning a Persona bypasses the human voting process.

• Default: Off (mentions skip the voting process)
• Turn it on: If you want mentions to still go through human selection

Automatic Selection

Persona Selection Strategy

Determines how Fractal chooses which Persona responds to a message.

• Default: Intelligent (Fractal automatically picks the most relevant Persona)
• Strategy options:
  • Intelligent - Fractal automatically selects the most relevant Persona based on context
  • Mentions Only - Only Personas that are specifically mentioned will respond
  • Random - A random Persona is selected to respond
• Adjust if: You want to control who responds differently

Human Selection

Wait for Human Selection

Lets group members vote on which Persona should respond to each message.

• Default: Off (Personas respond automatically)
• Turn it on: If you want the group to choose who responds
• Set timeout: How long to wait for votes (5 seconds to 5 minutes)
• Voting Style options:
  • First Vote Decides - The first person to vote determines which Persona responds
  • Majority - The Persona with the most votes responds

Human Selection not required

Determines whether human voting is mandatory or optional.

• Default: Off (voting is optional when enabled)
• Turn it on: If you want to require voting for every message

Memories (View Memories)

About Memories:

Memories are pieces of information that AI Personas automatically remember about your conversation, group, and its members. Think of it like giving Personas a notebook where they jot down important things from your conversations.

Why memories matter:

Without memories, Personas only know what's in the current conversation. With memories, they can recall details from weeks or months ago - making interactions feel more personal and contextually aware over time.

What Personas remember:

• Important facts about group members (preferences, interests, goals)
• Significant events or milestones that happened in the group
• Ongoing projects or topics the group cares about
• Relationship dynamics and how members interact
• Decisions the group has made
• Personal details that help Personas engage more meaningfully

How memories are created:

Completely automatically. As your group chats, Personas notice important information and store it as memories. You don't need to do anything - they're paying attention and remembering naturally.

Managing Memories

Deleting memories:

If a memory is outdated, inaccurate, etc.:

1. Find the memory in the list
2. Tap the trash icon next to it
3. The memory is permanently deleted - Personas will no longer reference this information

Important to know:

• You cannot manually add memories - they're created automatically through conversations
• Memories are specific to this group/ conversation - they don't carry over to other chats