How do I add a system prompt when initializing a chat?

[angelhodar]

In the new v0.chats.init() function, I dont know how can I add some system instructions for guidelines about how the code should be implemented. Maybe just adding the prompt as a file with a name like "instructions.md" would be enough? Even if this works, I think having a system parameter like in the v0.chats.create() is the best option

[emmanuel-martinez-dev]

Hi, I'm not a dev working on the v0-sdk but I think that init does not fulfill the purpose of defining a system prompt. What you can do in that case is extract the id of the chat that was created with init and send messages to v0 with sendMessage to that same chat.

import { v0 } from 'v0-sdk'

const { id }  = await v0.chats.init({
   files:  [{
      name: 'app/global.css',
      content: '
         body: {
            background: black;
            color: white;
         }
      ',
   }],
})

await v0.chats.sendMessage({
   chatId: id
   message: 'Add a homepage',
})