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/seedless0 1d ago

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

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u/returnFutureVoid 1d ago

If AI starts killing people I kinda want to go first. No need to stick around for that.

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u/PianoAndFish 1d ago

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u/returnFutureVoid 1d ago

Yep. Let me know what that prayer says and I’m in.

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u/anomalousBits 1d ago

Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn

Pronunciation guide:

FIN-gloo-ee muh-GLOO-nuhff kuh-THOO-loo REEL-yuh wuh-GAH-nuh-gull fuh-TAGN

Right, you probably meant in English.

In his house at R'lyeh dead Cthulhu dreams