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by eCa 390 days ago
> So please

No one has ever said ”please” to me in release instructions. Not that I miss it, I would find it weird.

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It's a well known prompt trick to get better results. Scott Hanselman explained it like "You get to the nice corner of the internet."
But what if the LLM senses you're using the word "please" in the passive aggressive, patronizing, ironic sense? ;)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/INTERCAL

[The keyword "PLEASE"] provides two reasons for the program's rejection by the compiler: if "PLEASE" does not appear often enough, the program is considered insufficiently polite, and the error message says this; if it appears too often, the program could be rejected as excessively polite. Although this feature existed in the original INTERCAL compiler, it was undocumented.