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by kissgyorgy 387 days ago
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."
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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.