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why so many people add 'please' when asking machine to do something? Was there actually research that when you SCREAM or curse it follows your instructions bett

• zarzavat 15d ago
  I'm polite to LLMs. It's not for the models it's for myself. If I start being rude to models then I might accidentally start being rude to other people as well.
• dolebirchwood 15d ago
  Probably because polite people are already in the habit of saying please when typing out requests in chat. We're not consciously thinking about it, regardless of whether a human or machine is on the other side.
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• perching_aix 15d ago
  Not to go all ying/yang about it, but just to give a parallel: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loudness_war https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loudness_war - you kinda need silence to draw a contrast with what's meant to be loud. Separately, my boss confided in us that he's super abusive with his agent, wondering if we are too (no, lol). While I try not to read too much into this (which he doesn't make easy), I also can't help but not really notice a whole lot of amazing agentic delivery differences from his side. On the contrary, while the passion may improve his agent's performance, I'm not sure if it doesn't decrease his, upending the entire theatre.
• conradludgate 15d ago
  I think about removing please/thanks, but then I accidentally add them back in during some edit/rewrite of the prompt... It's just how I'm used to asking for things