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I have always said please and thank you to LLMs, not to increase accuracy or because I'm stupid. I believe it is more about me than about the LLM, and this is a
by theanonymousone 5mo ago
I have always said please and thank you to LLMs, not to increase accuracy or because I'm stupid. I believe it is more about me than about the LLM, and this is anyway a habit I don't want to lose.
- jkarni 5mo agoThomas Aquinas believed cruelty to animals was wrong not because animals have souls (and with that all the standard moral rights), but because it can teach us cruelty to other humans.
- niek_pas 5mo agoGenuine question: do you add 'please' and 'thank you' to Google searches? If not, what sets them apart?
- perching_aix 5mo agoGoogle searches being keyword based, rather than simulated conversations? The same reason you wouldn't put in an entire actual question/sentence, unless you either don't know how to use Google, are pissed off, or have an actual reason to suspect that it would yield proper hits (e.g. looking up an excerpt).
- Arch-TK 5mo agoGoogle has been optimized for sentence like questions so much that for a good 6+ years now it has been completely useless as keyword search. To clarify: sentence search got slightly better at the cost of keyword search. So the result is unusable garbage.
- wolpoli 5mo agoIt is rather hard to lose of habit of using search engine with keywords given the change took place without much fanfare. I have no problem using sentences with the current ai tools through.
- spiderfarmer 5mo agoGoogle isn’t conversational.
- sunrunner 5mo agoI searched for "Hey Google" and got this in response: Hey! I'm here and ready to help. What’s on your mind today? Whether you need to look up information, plan a trip, or get things done, just let me know!
- gum_wobble 5mo agoGenuine question: do you write Google search queries in natural language?
- fc417fc802 5mo agoI didn't used to but I do now that the searches go straight to an LLM. I almost always find the model output to be much more useful than the list of search results.
- dminik 5mo agoI don't. I was recently doing some searching for information I thought AI would be good for: fuzzy natural language search with some conditions. And it was, but ... Gemini at least is not great at citing and picking sources. Or providing multiple sources for the same thing. It tends to stop at threes. So if you want more, you have to prompt it uselessly, like: "any more?"
- globalnode 5mo agollms seem more human like so if you were to treat them badly then you are more likely to condition yourself to treat other living creatures badly.
- sunrunner 5mo agoThere's also awareness of the basilisk...
- graemep 5mo agoIs it worth getting worse results for that reason? From the article: "Contrary to expectations, impolite prompts consistently outperformed polite ones, with accuracy ranging from 80.8% for Very Polite prompts to 84.8% for Very Rude prompts. These findings differ from earlier studies that associated rudeness with poorer outcomes, suggesting that newer LLMs may respond differently to tonal variation. " I am not polite to LLMs because I do not want to anthropomorphise them.
- jcattle 5mo agoI guess it's about habit. In the end you are communicating. If I get into the habit of being rude while communicating with a machine, I would be afraid of this habit spilling over to my communication with other humans.
- graemep 5mo agoWhat about the risk that talking to a machine as though its human leads to thinking of it has human? That leads down a lot of dangerous paths.
- zahlman 5mo agoI don't feel like trying to get information from an LLM is a different kind of "communication" from, say, writing code. And I don't use INTERCAL, so.
- theanonymousone 5mo ago> Is it worth getting worse results for that reason? > accuracy ranging from 80.8% for Very Polite prompts to 84.8% for Very Rude prompts I can live with that, for now at least.
- layman51 5mo agoI also remember reading a long time ago someone who wrote that they wanted to be polite to an LLM because after they prompted it to learn about whether politeness was good for improving accuracy of responses, they got a message that led them to conclude that politeness could probably help. It seems a bit odd then because I have heard so much about how people use LLMs' responses about themselves to learn about LLMs themselves, but that seems like it is a suspicious approach.
- vixen99 5mo agoMe too! You've said exactly what I was about to say. Anyone else feel that way?