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When A Custom GPT's Instructions Work Great Until Someone Uploads A File

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A custom GPT built with a carefully scoped system prompt often behaves exactly as intended, right up until a user uploads a document mid conversation and asks the bot to work with it. At that point, a whole category of instructions that governed the bot's behavior perfectly well in pure conversatio…

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  1. 2026-09-21 05:42 · DEV Community — AI
    When A Custom GPT's Instructions Work Great Until Someone Uploads A File

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