Comment by katzenversteher

From their perspective they don't really know who put the tokens there. They just caculated the probabilities and then the inference engine adds tokens to the context window. Same with user and system prompt, they just appear in the context window and the LLM just gets "user said: 'hello', assistant said: 'how can I help '" and it just calculates the probabilities of the next token. If the context window had stopped in the user role it would have played the user role (calculated the probabilities for the next token of the user).