System Message
Domain: LLM Concepts
🎯 Motivation
The system message is the technical term for the system prompt in the API. It’s the first message in the conversation, setting the model’s behavior.
📋 Concrete Example
In the API: messages=[{role: system, content: ‘You are a tutor’}, {role: user, content: ‘Help me’}]. The system message is the first dict with role=system.
🔗 Analogy
The rules of a game explained before playing - before the game starts, everyone agrees on rules (system message). Then the game (conversation) proceeds within those rules.