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ALH
May 22, 2025Brass Contributor
Painful behavior of "slash" ("/") in chat prompts
I know about the /commands (/reset, /help, ...) in Copilot powered applications where hitting "/" triggers auto-completion suggestions. Here we are talking about Copilot chat (Teams or Web app for i...
Villanite
Jul 08, 2025Copper Contributor
Same here; this "feature" is incredibly annoying, and I only started playing around with Copilot two days ago. This immediately became a reason for me to prefer Gemini, CGPT, or Perplexity over Copilot. I'd like to use Copilot for work, but if MSFT is just going to hard-code (as confirmed by Copilot, itself) "features" into the system that ruin the experience, I'm staying far away from it.
Fun fact, while signing in to make this comment, MSFT Authenticator literally stopped me to ask me if I would recommend/rate their app on the play store.
Intrusive nonsense features no one asked for. Is that really the strategic plan for these products?