[hakaneskici]

I have heard a few times that "being nice" to LLMs sometimes improves their output quality. I find this hard to believe, but happy to hear your experience.

Examples include things like, referring to LLM nicely ("my dear"), saying "please" and asking nicely, or thanking.

Do these actually work?

[thatguy0900]

Well consider it's training data. I could easily see questions on sites like stack overflow having better quality answers when the original question is asked nicely. I'm not sure if it's a real effect or not but I could see how it could be. A rudely asked question will have a lot of flame war responses.

[owenpalmer]

I'm not sure encouragment itself is the performance enhancer, it's more that you're communicating that the model has the right "vibe" of what your end goal is.

[borgdefenser]

I use to do the "hey chat" all the time out of habit and when I thought the language model was something more like AI in a movie than what it is. I am sure it makes no difference beyond the user acting different and possibly asking better questions if they think they are talking to a person. Now for me, it looks completely ridiculous.