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.

Using personal instructions in GitHub Copilot Chat

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