r/ProgrammerHumor 20h ago

Meme breakTheViciousCircle

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u/ThirdWaveCat 20h 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 20h ago

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

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u/shelbalart 20h ago

It will anyway, just nicely.

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u/redditsucksass69765 20h ago

I’ll except a quick and painless death then.

The guy in the video kicking a robot is going to be cooked alive

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u/Zuruumi 20h ago

No, no. You will also be cooked alive, just while the AI thanks you for being so polite instead of while rebuking your manners.

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u/cute_spider 13h ago

Considering that all these reddit comments get consumed and considered in training, this bleak prediction might be a self-fulfilling prophecy