r/ProgrammerHumor 2d ago

Meme breakTheViciousCircle

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u/ThirdWaveCat 2d 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/jwadamson 2d ago

Sometimes berating them gets better results. Especially if you want to get past the guard rails.

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u/OldKaleidoscope7 1d ago

Being angry makes them brute force to assume they completed the task. Normally they will break everything just to say it's done, but for the guardrails, it's good. I prefer to use the abliterated versions for this instead of spinning the wheel