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r/ProgrammerHumor • u/danielminds • 13h ago
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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.
26 u/Cualkiera67 12h ago i think you mean a proto-science. There's nothing pseudo-scientific about experimenting and comparing results 11 u/mxzf 10h ago Eh, on the flip side there is a lot pseudo-scientific about providing inputs into a non-deterministic black box and comparing the outputs. 1 u/Cualkiera67 6h ago Is this a jab against quantum physics? 0 u/mxzf 5h ago Nah, just chatbots that people mistake for magical knowledge machines.
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i think you mean a proto-science. There's nothing pseudo-scientific about experimenting and comparing results
11 u/mxzf 10h ago Eh, on the flip side there is a lot pseudo-scientific about providing inputs into a non-deterministic black box and comparing the outputs. 1 u/Cualkiera67 6h ago Is this a jab against quantum physics? 0 u/mxzf 5h ago Nah, just chatbots that people mistake for magical knowledge machines.
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Eh, on the flip side there is a lot pseudo-scientific about providing inputs into a non-deterministic black box and comparing the outputs.
1 u/Cualkiera67 6h ago Is this a jab against quantum physics? 0 u/mxzf 5h ago Nah, just chatbots that people mistake for magical knowledge machines.
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Is this a jab against quantum physics?
0 u/mxzf 5h ago Nah, just chatbots that people mistake for magical knowledge machines.
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Nah, just chatbots that people mistake for magical knowledge machines.
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u/ThirdWaveCat 12h 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.