While using ChatGPT or similar, do you mind your manners? Does it help getting a better answer?
Ask HN: Are You Polite to AI?
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Re: Ask HN: Are You Polite to AI?
#2Yes, 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.
Re: Ask HN: Are You Polite to AI?
#3No, I reduce my comments to omit anything unrelated to the specific task at hand.
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#4I find myself compelled to be polite since it is polite.
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#5I was, when ChatGPT 4 first launched. But as I have used them more, I have becoming more impatient and rude.
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#6Typing "thanks" or "great" to AI make me feel better
Re: Ask HN: Are You Polite to AI?
#7Yes, 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'd watch that as a movie.
Re: Ask HN: Are You Polite to AI?
#8I tend to be polite when asking the LLMs for things. This is less to do with building a rapport with our future benevolent robot overlords and more to do keeping low the friction of context switches when asking co-workers for help.
Re: Ask HN: Are You Polite to AI?
#9never, i try to find as many profane eggcorns as possible and use them specificly in prompts as an eggcornish dialect for AI, it messes it up uncannily
Re: Ask HN: Are You Polite to AI?
#10Yes, because it helps me do things I wouldn't be able to. But when frustrated I just use exclamations to convey this, lol