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There is clearly a demand for personality too. I was reading some chatGPT programming workflow Twitter thread the other day and the guy was unusually polite wi
by no_time 3y ago
There is clearly a demand for personality too.
I was reading some chatGPT programming workflow Twitter thread the other day and the guy was unusually polite with the thing. Like, does saying "please" or "thank you" actually improve its performance or is it just tech roleplay?
- dotancohen 3y agoYes, in the early days of ChatGPT I had noticed that polite conversation leads to less adversarial responses. In retrospect it does seem logical that a language model would choose more amenable responses and be more willing to help when spoken nicely to. I do not know if that behavior has been programmed out of it by now, I simply talk nicely to it with please and thank you out of habit at this point.
- tgv 3y ago> There is clearly a demand for personality too. Offer people sugar, and they get obese. Demand doesn't justify anything.
- krisoft 3y agoThe person who started the thread said "I don't want that." Explaining that other people do want that is a perfectly valid response. If you would like to further elaborate on why you think sugar is the right analogy here that would be very welcome too of course.
- tgv 3y agoTL;DR demand is no justification.
- TeMPOraL 3y agoSaying "please" and "thank you" is hardly dealing with a personality. It's civilized behavior 101, and arguably not doing it is what takes effort.