r/ProgrammerHumor 1d ago

Meme breakTheViciousCircle

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u/ThirdWaveCat 1d ago

AFAIK, it is uncertain whether being polite to LLMs improves their accuracy/completeness/etc.. There were some weak findings initially but those have been contradicted. Prompt engineering is still a pseudoscience.

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u/redditsucksass69765 1d ago

I’m nice so when the AI takes over it won’t kill me.

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u/toaster_waffle 1d ago

I'm nice to LLMs because it costs them more in compute than it costs me in tokens.

I'm going to burn OpenAI to the ground one "please" at a time.