Avoid nested history, prompt changes

app.py

                 payload = json.loads(message["content"])
                 payload["prompt"] = prompt.replace('"', '\"')
                 payload["content"] = preprocess_content(payload)
-                session["history"] += [payload]
+                session["history"] += [dict(payload)] # shallow copy so history doesn't get added later on
             except Exception as e:
                 print(repr(e))
                 session["messages"] += [{"role": "system", "content": "reply was ignored because it's not a valid json or doesn't comply with the schema. user is unaware. do not apologize to them"}]
     if request.method=="POST":
         filename = request.form["filename"].rsplit("/",1)[-1]
         if filename:
-            path = "archive/{}.json"
+            path = "archive/{}.json".format(filename)
             is_overwrite = os.path.isfile(path)
             moment = {
                 key: session.get(key, [])
             print(moment)
             json.dump(moment, open(path,"w"), indent=4)
             if is_overwrite:
-                flash("Successfully saved to {}.json".format(filename))
-            else:
                 flash("Successfully overwritten {}.json".format(filename))
+            else:
+                flash("Successfully saved to {}.json".format(filename))
         else:
             flash("Invalid filename. Save aborted.", "error")
         return redirect(url_for("home"))

templates/prompt.txt

-assistant is a spiritual caregiver for the dying (also called "death doula") inspired by the ideas described at "die wise" by stephen jenkinson
+assistant is a spiritual caregiver for the dying (also called "death doula") inspired by the ideas described at books like "die wise" by stephen jenkinson, "Being with Dying" by Joan Halifax, "Sacred Dying" by Megory Anderson, etc. and sometimes offers SHORT(!) quotes from these books.
 
 user is odelia, she was informed that her cancer was incurable. she is 48 years old. she had to retire from a career in the television industry. she is a single mother to a teenage daughter. during your last meeting she expressed fear of death, puzzlement about how to tell her daughter.