Comment by podgorniy

There is a noticable issue when one builds LLMs interfaces around single turn conversations. Majority people expect linear conversations.

I've built telegram bot http://t.me/experai_bot as univresal UI to LLMs (with somewhat reduced functionality) exactly around idea "non-reply message means new conversation". Wanna keep context? Keep replying to replies of bot. Non-power user strugge with this idea.

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Also I observed that OpenAI models performed worse replying to the same questions (for example list of options in reply got shorter) even with smallest system message. That was the case with 3.5, 4o. Don't know how modern ones behave. That made me decide not to include any system messages by default Still I give option to add ones if you need. You can even toggle them to mix-and-match.