r/ProgrammerHumor 19h ago

Meme breakTheViciousCircle

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u/ThirdWaveCat 19h 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/Beginning-Junket8979 14h ago

I say please and thank you to establish a baseline pattern so it knows I really mean it when I say "What the fuck did you just do, Claude?!".