diff --git a/core/cat/looking_glass/stray_cat.py b/core/cat/looking_glass/stray_cat.py
index a065e655..e61feb37 100644
--- a/core/cat/looking_glass/stray_cat.py
+++ b/core/cat/looking_glass/stray_cat.py
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
 from typing import Literal, get_args, List, Dict, Union, Any
 
 from langchain.docstore.document import Document
-from langchain_core.messages import SystemMessage, BaseMessage
+from langchain_core.messages import BaseMessage, HumanMessage
 from langchain_core.runnables import RunnableConfig, RunnableLambda
 from langchain_core.prompts import ChatPromptTemplate
 from langchain_core.output_parsers.string import StrOutputParser
@@ -322,8 +322,8 @@ def llm(self, prompt: str, stream: bool = False) -> str:
         # here we deal with motherfucking langchain
         prompt = ChatPromptTemplate(
             messages=[
-                SystemMessage(content=prompt)
-                # TODO: add here optional convo history passed to the method, 
+                HumanMessage(content=prompt) # We decided to use HumanMessage for wide-range compatibility even if it could bring some problem with tokenizers
+                # TODO: add here optional convo history passed to the method,
                 #  or taken from working memory
             ]
         )
diff --git a/core/pyproject.toml b/core/pyproject.toml
index b0aa7f56..940eefa2 100644
--- a/core/pyproject.toml
+++ b/core/pyproject.toml
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 [project]
 name = "Cheshire-Cat"
 description = "Production ready AI assistant framework"
-version = "1.8.0"
+version = "1.8.1"
 requires-python = ">=3.10"
 license = { file = "LICENSE" }
 authors = [