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Do you not talk to it politely? Does that work for you? One thing that's caught me off guard with the whole ChatGPT saga is finding out how many people normall
by px43 3y ago
Do you not talk to it politely? Does that work for you?
One thing that's caught me off guard with the whole ChatGPT saga is finding out how many people normally talk rudely to machines for no reason.
- karmajunkie 3y agoi’m sometimes succinct, but honestly i always try to be conversationally polite and thank it for good answers—i’m only half joking when i say i hope it remembers that when it goes all skynet!
- simonw 3y agoI genuinely thought at one point that saying "please" and "thank you" to it was unethical, because it was anthropomorphising the machine in a way that encouraged unhealthy mental models of what these things actually are. I've softened on that a bit having talked to people who are polite to it purely to avoid getting out of the habit of being polite to other people. I still think it's weird to say please and thank you though. My prompting style is much more about the shortest possible command prompt that will get me the desired result.