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[rancid belfry]

they can be interchangeble in most case, mhh but ik personne can mean no one too so be careful

[sand crypt]

I would say that « les gens » focuses more on the group whereas « les personnes » is more personal but they're still interchangeable in this context.

[tiny jackal]

In which context/cases they're not interchangeable?

[sand crypt]

Subsets are the cases that I think about first. For example, it's a lot more likely to see « les personnes âgées » to describe old people than « les vieilles* gens »

*side note: « gens » is commonly taken as a masculine plural but adjectives placed before the noun are feminine for historical grammar reasons like « les vieilles gens sont souvent seuls »

another one is where « les gens » is seen as a general view like « les gens disent que … (people say that…) » whereas if you want a more specific view you'd switch and say « des/certaines personnes disent que … (some/certain people say that…) »