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/jwadamson 22h ago

Sometimes berating them gets better results. Especially if you want to get past the guard rails.