readme : add docs for chat-persistent.sh (#1568)

* readme : add docs for chat-persistent.sh

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+### Persistent Interaction
+
+The prompt, user inputs, and model generations can be saved and resumed across calls to `./main` by leveraging `--prompt-cache` and `--prompt-cache-all`. The `./examples/chat-persistent.sh` script demonstrates this with support for long-running, resumable chat sessions. To use this example, you must provide a file to cache the initial chat prompt and a directory to save the chat session, and may optionally provide the same variables as `chat-13B.sh`. The same prompt cache can be reused for new chat sessions. Note that both prompt cache and chat directory are tied to the initial prompt (`PROMPT_TEMPLATE`) and the model file.
+
+```bash
+# Start a new chat
+PROMPT_CACHE_FILE=chat.prompt.bin CHAT_SAVE_DIR=./chat/default ./examples/chat-persistent.sh
+
+# Resume that chat
+PROMPT_CACHE_FILE=chat.prompt.bin CHAT_SAVE_DIR=./chat/default ./examples/chat-persistent.sh
+
+# Start a different chat with the same prompt/model
+PROMPT_CACHE_FILE=chat.prompt.bin CHAT_SAVE_DIR=./chat/another ./examples/chat-persistent.sh
+
+# Different prompt cache for different prompt/model
+PROMPT_TEMPLATE=./prompts/chat-with-bob.txt PROMPT_CACHE_FILE=bob.prompt.bin \
+    CHAT_SAVE_DIR=./chat/bob ./examples/chat-persistent.sh
+```
+
 ### Instruction mode with Alpaca
 
 1. First, download the `ggml` Alpaca model into the `./models` folder