# OpenAI bot doesn’t follow system prompt and tools when mentioned

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/openai-bot-doesn-t-follow-system-prompt-and-tools-when-mentioned/308661
**Category:** Support
**Tags:** ai
**Created:** [May 20, 2024, 6:43am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/openai-bot-doesn-t-follow-system-prompt-and-tools-when-mentioned/308661 "2024-05-20T06:43:56Z")
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### Author: ![Jagster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/jagster/32/192154_2.png) [@Jagster](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Jagster)
#### Post date: [May 20, 2024, 6:43am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/openai-bot-doesn-t-follow-system-prompt-and-tools-when-mentioned/308661/1 "2024-05-20T06:43:56Z")

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My GPT-person doesn’t follow system prompt on chat and when mentioned on posts. It doesn’t use tools either, like vision or web. I’m using GPT-4o.

I will do a wider test run with different models, but before that: is that expected behavious or issues of GPT-4o? I’ve red quite a lot some negativ’ish reviews about GPT-4o and about its lazyness and it doesn’t follow that good same system prompt what was totally fine with Turbo.

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### Author: ![sam](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/sam/32/102149_2.png) [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [May 20, 2024, 10:37am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/openai-bot-doesn-t-follow-system-prompt-and-tools-when-mentioned/308661/2 "2024-05-20T10:37:58Z")

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Tools and system prompt are supported, try creating a brand new persona, giving it a user and enabling default Llm

Unlike messages we don’t show the tool call, but if you look at logs you will see it