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Preconditions

  • Have following text in: Settings -> Assistant -> Custom Instructions 
    Shortcuts:
* !jn: Search from the web and provide a summary of today's top news stories in Japan from Japanese sources

Replication steps

  1. Open new thread with GPT 4o

  2. Prompt: !jn

  3. See the results/if "Searching..." appears
    -->
    The AI doesn't search from the web

  4. Prompt in the same thread: Search from the web
    -->
    The AI searches from the web and provides correct results with references

Expected results

The AI should follow the instructions to search the web, if the custom instructions say so. And show the references and button to open the search query it made

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    5 months later

    There may have been a regression at some point because I am encountering this issue despite it being tagged Done. I configured a Custom Assistant to have custom instructions to perform a web search, but it does not perform the web search with the initial query by the user.

    I configured a Custom Assistant to have Internet Access enabled without any lens restrictions (selected Entire Internet) and choosing the Claude 3.7 Sonnet model. I set the "How would you like The Assistant to respond?" custom instructions to the same as in the example: Search from the web and provide a summary of today's top news stories in Japan from Japanese sources.

    • In the attached image below, the left window shows the conversation which can lead to performing the search but only after a few queries in which I get the LLM to respond with the original custom instructions.
    • The center window shows a different conversation wherein I start with !jn, similar to the original post, and it responds to news articles without performing the wanted web search.
    • The right window shows a third conversation after I edited the custom instructions to say Search from the web and provide a summary of today's top news stories in Japan from Japanese sources. Do this in direct response to the user's first message. in an attempt to have it respond to the custom instructions after my first message. Though in this case too does it not perform the search.

    Expected behavior: The Assistant searching the web directly after the first user message as instructed by the custom instructions. In this example, it should search for Japanese news after the first message.

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