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> Even thought they have access to my Google Account and my phone, their Gemini app is useless.

This is the funniest thing to me. When you open the app, Gemini says:

"Hello, Vasco"

In the welcome screen. I then ask this amazing intelligence this question:

"What's my name?"

"I do not know your name. I am an AI and I don't have access to your personal information."

I know why it happens, but it's so funny.

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If I didn't know better, I'd think you were joking.

To be fair, the "Hello Vasco" is a generated background image and not part of the chat context. But still, you would think they would put your name in the system prompt.

> you would think they would put your name in the system prompt

They probably do, along with "pretend to not have any personal information about the user".

That's what they tried with HAL-9000, and remember what happened!

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