I also use please, I'm not sure why I have the habit -- one upside is that all your prompts begin with the same word. Though if you look at the self-attention

I also use please, I'm not sure why I have the habit -- one upside is that all your prompts begin with the same word. Though if you look at the self-attention mechanism, 'please' seems like it could be a word that signals the rest is a command -- perhaps that's helpful. Ie., LLMs work by having mechanisms that give certain words a modulating effect on the interpretation of the whole prompt.