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More services (especially those focused on agents) are starting to support the notion of per-request instructions, effectively system messages that aren't stored as part of a persisted chat history. For existing stateless services that don't have their own notion of separate instructions, we can just translate instructions into a system message.
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More services (especially those focused on agents) are starting to support the notion of per-request instructions, effectively system messages that aren't stored as part of a persisted chat history. For existing stateless services that don't have their own notion of separate instructions, we can just translate instructions into a system message.
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