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Hi, I found <https://kotlinlang.slack.com/archives/CT0G9SD7Z/p1581936150005800|this message> looking for an answer but unfortunately it did not get an answer. I am new to kotest and now run into the problem that I would like to display my own message when there is an error.

My example is `null shouldNotBe null` in this case I get a generic message `&lt;null&gt; should not equal &lt;null&gt;`
This is not very helpful. I would get an error I write myself, e.g. “Property ‘test’ is null, although it shouldn’t have been”. I understand that the matcher does not know this, but as I know which item I added in there I could make the error message clearer.

How can I achieve this?

This should help you <https://github.com/kotest/kotest/blob/master/doc/clues.md|https://github.com/kotest/kotest/blob/master/doc/clues.md>

<@U12AGS8JG> this is *exactly* what I wanted, thank you so much :slightly_smiling_face:
I would prefer the other message not to show at all, BUT this is good enough for me for now, many thanks