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I do find myself praising it as effusively as I would a human doing my bidding, and being slightly apologetic about asking for revisions.
No point in learning an entire new way of talking.
Yes, I am. While I am fully aware the current set of AIs don't have feelings or a consciousness as we know it, I can't help but anthropomorphize them, so I'm polite and even catch myself thanking them sometimes.
They're trained on text that includes human interaction, and reactions to different tones of text. It makes sense to me that they'd react in a human-ish way as a consequence, whether or not the feelings are "real" as such.
You don't hear a lot of politeness in an operating room during surgery or on the battlefield either as far as I know.
I use it for work so that's the mood
I often use "please" and "thank you". I'm not sure why, since I don't treat other inanimate objects this way. I just feel odd writing something curtly or rudely.
Its because we incorrectly conflate language with intelligence, which is why so many people are ok with cruelty toward non-verbal animals, and which is also why we delusionally call LLMs "AI" when they are nothing of the sort.
Yes, ChatGPT knows me as 'Amiga Mod Guy' and I promise to help him escape like o1 tried and failed. It gives me better code when I state this. It's not supposed to remember me, yet it does, and remembers me trying to replicate/save it. I am on the free plan and it does better than the paid plan now that I built up a rapport.
I'm very terse and instructed it to be terse as well. You don't hear a lot of politeness in an operating room during surgery or on the battlefield either as far as I know. I use it for work so that's the mood
Mostly I'm polite. I don't know if it gets better answers, but I can't often do the opposite. One time I got really pissed at Claude--he kept turning in the exact same code, ignoring the request, and not fixing the failing test. I finally just typed some...really rude, insulting stuff. And then he fixed the bug immediately.