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### Answer Currently, the first message in Vapi is designed to be a non-interruptible initial message that the assistant sends at the beginning of a call or conversation. This message is not designed to be part of the conversational history that the LLM "remembers" or considers in its subsequent responses [(1)]() . If you want this first message to be part of the conversational context, one approach could be to manually include similar content as part of the system prompt that configures the LLM's context at the start of the interaction. However, this may require adjusting the way prompts and responses are handled in your specific setup to ensure that the LLM treats this information as part of the ongoing conversation context . For more details on how to configure assistant settings and messages, you might want to refer to the official documentation on creating and managing assistants [(2)]() , [(1)]() .