Cassidy Williams • 7/17/2025

Using personal instructions in GitHub Copilot Chat

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This article explains how to set up and use personal instructions in GitHub Copilot Chat to tailor the AI's behavior. It covers examples like setting a preferred language or requiring code samples in JavaScript, and shares the author's specific prompt for getting friendly, technical, and quotable responses suitable for developer advocacy content.

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