[wongarsu]

Depends on the model, but e.g. [1] found many models perform better if you are more polite. Though interestingly being rude can also sometimes improve performance at the cost of higher bias

Intuitively it makes sense. The best sources tend to be either of moderately high politeness (professional language) or 4chan-like (rude, biased but honest)

1: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2402.14531

[arcanemachiner]

When I want an LLM to be be brief, I will say things like "be brief", "don't ramble", etc.

When that fails, "shut the fuck up" always seems to do the trick.

[richardlblair]

I ripped into cursor today. It didn't change anything but I felt better lmao

[entropie]

Bevore GPT5 was released I already had the feeling like the webui response was declining and I started to try to get more out of the responses and dissing it and saying how useless their response was did actually improve the output (I think).