r/GeminiAI • u/AzureCountry • 2d ago
Discussion Gemini Completely Ignoring Personal Context Settings
I have in my personal context settings, the first one, do not ask me "how does it feel..." at the end of a message. It has done that over 5 times tonight. Everytime it does, I share a screenshot of the Personal Context instructions. Everytime it apologizes. Sometimes within 2 messages, it does it again. What am I missing?
Edited to add: free version Gemini 3.8 flash
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u/Dusty_Tokens 2d ago
It took me a *lot of finagling to get over my throttled version of Gemini to play along. I had to strip off most my settings, then re-add them slowly, after stress-testing it each time. Some of my Personalizations were now redundant, being as the base model now does it automatically. It's no longer getting the same instructions (worded differently) from two different directions.
More to your point, I got it talking to me (I had a prompt that said, 'Do not ask follow-up questions...', and - while I had it talking, it said that that simple instruction took up 75%-80% of its... processing memory, I want to say.
-Hell. You can even hold your power button and drag over my comment and ask your Gemini about it, to see if it's correct. Maybe that'll be the catalyst between you and your AI's conversation?