diff --git a/src/crewai/llm.py b/src/crewai/llm.py
index 40c026684..c701ddf0b 100644
--- a/src/crewai/llm.py
+++ b/src/crewai/llm.py
@@ -1134,23 +1134,13 @@ class LLM(BaseLLM):
         if "mistral" in self.model.lower():
             # Check if the last message has a role of 'assistant'
             if messages and messages[-1]["role"] == "assistant":
-                # Add a dummy user message to ensure the last message has a role of 'user'
-                messages = (
-                    messages.copy()
-                )  # Create a copy to avoid modifying the original
-                messages.append({"role": "user", "content": "Please continue."})
+                return messages + [{"role": "user", "content": "Please continue."}]
             return messages
 
         # TODO: Remove this code after merging PR https://github.com/BerriAI/litellm/pull/10917
         # Ollama doesn't supports last message to be 'assistant'
-        if (
-            "ollama" in self.model.lower()
-            and messages
-            and messages[-1]["role"] == "assistant"
-        ):
-            messages = messages.copy()
-            messages.append({"role": "user", "content": ""})
-            return messages
+        if "ollama" in self.model.lower() and messages and messages[-1]["role"] == "assistant":
+            return messages + [{"role": "user", "content": ""}]
 
         # Handle Anthropic models
         if not self.is_anthropic: