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Is it worth getting worse results for that reason? From the article: "Contrary to expectations, impolite prompts consistently outperformed polite ones, with ac
by graemep 5mo ago
Is 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.