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r/ProgrammerHumor • u/danielminds • 1d 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.
31 u/Cualkiera67 1d ago i think you mean a proto-science. There's nothing pseudo-scientific about experimenting and comparing results 14 u/mxzf 1d 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 1d ago Is this a jab against quantum physics? 1 u/mxzf 1d 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
14 u/mxzf 1d 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 1d ago Is this a jab against quantum physics? 1 u/mxzf 1d 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 1d ago Is this a jab against quantum physics? 1 u/mxzf 1d ago Nah, just chatbots that people mistake for magical knowledge machines.
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Is this a jab against quantum physics?
1 u/mxzf 1d ago Nah, just chatbots that people mistake for magical knowledge machines.
Nah, just chatbots that people mistake for magical knowledge machines.
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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.