VAPI•7mo ago

Suggestion to Add Date & Time in Vapi System Prompt

Hi @Vapi Team,
Could you consider adding the current date and time to the vapi system prompt? As I observed the assistant gives the wrong date, and this small change could improve accuracy for time-based queries.

ordinary-sapphire•5/29/25, 7:20 AM

its already there

Today is {{ "now" | date: "%A", "Asia/Kolkata" }}
The current date is {{ "now" | date: "%B %d, %Y", "Asia/Kolkata" }}
The call started at {{ "now" | date: "%I:%M %p", "Asia/Kolkata" }}

ordinary-sapphire•5/29/25, 7:20 AM

like this

Oordinary-sapphire its already there Today is {{ "now" | date: "%A", "Asia/Kolkata" }} The current...

uniform-turquoiseOP•5/29/25, 7:33 AM

Hi @hxrdxk
I tried a call Call ID : 02d24836-5d38-4e77-add0-219456f5ee37Call ID : 02d24836-5d38-4e77-add0-219456f5ee37 jst a few minutes back and asked the assistant for today's date it replied "June twelfth 20 24".
Can you please check why is this happening ?

KyleAPP•5/30/25, 5:52 AM

Hey Sahil! I just looked into the shared call ID. Its call log. You are not using the datetime variables anyway. If you look at your prompt, the values are not replaced with the actual variable, so that means it's not being used. So I'll suggest you take a look at the datetime variables inside your prompt again and then try. Let me know how it goes for you.

Ccomprehensive-tomato Hey Sahil! I just looked into the shared call ID. Its call log. You are not usin...

uniform-turquoiseOP•5/30/25, 7:25 AM

Oh, I thought the system prompt in VAPI already included the current date and time, so I didn't think we needed to add it ourselves. But if that's not the case, I'll add it manually

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