Politeness and niceties can actually play a role in prompt engineering, because it signals actual information. For example, in automated contexts, I’ve found t

Politeness and niceties can actually play a role in prompt engineering, because it signals actual information. For example, in automated contexts, I’ve found that asking follow up questions sometimes causes the model to apologize, thinking that it didn’t do what you wanted the first time. Inserting “Thank you, now please…” resolves this concisely, because it’s how “you have done what I wanted, and I have further requests” is represented in a real conversation.