> Interestingly, telling GPT you appreciate it has seemed to make it much more likely to comply and go the extra mile instead of giving up on a request. This i

> Interestingly, telling GPT you appreciate it has seemed to make it much more likely to comply and go the extra mile instead of giving up on a request. This is not as absurd as it sounds, even though it isn't clear that it ought to work under ordinary Internet-text prompt engineering or under RLHF incentives, but it does seem that you can 'coerce' or 'incentivize' the model to 'work harder': in addition to the anecdotal evidence (I too have noticed that it seems to work a bit better if I'm polite), recently there was https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.11760#microsoft https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.11760#microsoft https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.07590#apollo https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.07590#apollo