Investigating how prompt politeness affects LLM accuracy (2025)
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Re: Investigating how prompt politeness affects LLM accuracy (2025)
#2Interesting.
I am wondering why would anyone use a t-test when the experiment is clearly modelled by a binomial distribution: 250 independent questions and each one is either answered correctly or not (the null is that the success rate is the same).
Re: Investigating how prompt politeness affects LLM accuracy (2025)
#3I have an idea: let's use these things for autonomous software engineering.
Re: Investigating how prompt politeness affects LLM accuracy (2025)
#4I have an idea: let's use these things for autonomous software engineering.
Remember to always say "please" and "thank you" when planning a critical system
Re: Investigating how prompt politeness affects LLM accuracy (2025)
#5Re: Investigating how prompt politeness affects LLM accuracy (2025)
#6Interesting. I am wondering why would anyone use a t-test when the experiment is clearly modelled by a binomial distribution: 250 independent questions and each one is either answered correctly or not (the null is that the success rate is the same).
I don't know much about stats, but does "the null is that the success rate is the same" imply that it's a sketchy methodology because they can come up with some findings ("ruder prompts are better/worse!") more often?
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#7Re: Investigating how prompt politeness affects LLM accuracy (2025)
#8I 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.
Re: Investigating how prompt politeness affects LLM accuracy (2025)
#9i only say please and thank you such that when the robots finally take over, they will remember i was nice to them.
Re: Investigating how prompt politeness affects LLM accuracy (2025)
#10I 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.
Thomas 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.