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So cool! I'll review fully later but was curious as something caught my attention, do you need to say please and thanks in your prompts for better outputs or is this just anthropomorphism taking over?

I do the same! To me it's a semi sarcastic hedge against the robots uprising and Roko's basilisk.

But more seriously I remember reading somewhere the LLM produce better output with question starting with please, supplementary politeness was not improving results. Probably because the training corpus include many samples where politeness in request produce better response. That apply to the original GPT-3.5, how it applies to newer models your guess is as good or better then mine...

The thanks are unnecessary but I guess they are useful to reinforce his son politeness habits.

It’s anthropomorphism taking over. I pretend I’m talking with a colleague when I do this sort of thing.

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