Starting a New Chat

How to start a new chat in the Qolaba Chatbot, when to do it, and why managing context matters.

Each chat in Qolaba is an isolated conversation thread tied to your current workspace. Starting a new chat gives you a clean context, a fresh message thread, and no influence from previous conversations.

Creating a New Chat

  1. Open your Workspace from the left navigation panel

  2. Select Chatbot

  3. Click New Chat in the top right

  4. Enter your first prompt and send

A new conversation thread is created automatically, saved to your workspace history, and begins consuming credits from your first message.


How Conversation Context Works

Every chat maintains its own context window — a memory of everything said within that thread, including your prompts, AI responses, follow-up instructions, and any files attached during the session.

This allows the AI to:

  • Build on earlier instructions without you repeating them

  • Refine outputs progressively across multiple turns

  • Handle complex, multi-step tasks within a single conversation

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Context is chat-specific. Starting a new chat resets conversational memory entirely. AI has no memory of previous chat sessions.


When to Start a New Chat

Start a new chat when you are:

  • Switching to a different topic or task

  • Working on a new client or project

  • Deliberately isolating results from a previous session

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Best practice: One chat per objective. It keeps your history clean, your outputs traceable, and your context uncontaminated.


Resetting Context

The cleanest way to reset context is to start a new chat. This ensures the AI has no memory of earlier instructions, files, or outputs — giving you a reliable baseline for experimentation or benchmarking.

Carrying over unintended context can cause the AI to reference outdated instructions, produce inconsistent comparisons, or generate outputs biased by earlier constraints.

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