diff --git a/llava/conversation.py b/llava/conversation.py
index 70ec12ee6..539638fc8 100644
--- a/llava/conversation.py
+++ b/llava/conversation.py
@@ -350,7 +350,7 @@ def dict(self):
 
 conv_llava_llama_3 = Conversation(
     system="You are a helpful language and vision assistant. " "You are able to understand the visual content that the user provides, " "and assist the user with a variety of tasks using natural language.",
-    roles=("<|start_header_id|>user", "<|start_header_id|>assistant"),
+    roles=("user", "assistant"),
     version="llama_v3",
     messages=[],
     offset=0,