Yes, but I still prefer a nice tone. Like why should I change my manners just because it has no feelings? If anything the statistic predicts a friendlier answer when I say "please".
Like you I generally prefer polite phrasings over rude ones, and I'm certainly not going to tell you how you should communicate to LLM models, however it's interesting to note that being somewhat rude and to the point seems to have some objective advantages, see for example:
Mind Your Tone: Investigating How Prompt Politeness Affects LLM Accuracy (short paper)
I would hate for this style of communication to leak through to daily communications with humans (e.g. colleagues) though, so even just for that it can make sense to hold on to a polite form of communication :-).
I know at least about the first paper. But I'm pretty sure that heavily depends on the model and I'm not sure how reproducible those studies were.
I for myself use the trick to ask the model, after I explained what it has to do, what it thinks about my proposal. Of course I have no scientific evidence but to me it feels as it prevents some misunderstandings and the model follows more correctly my intention.
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Like you I generally prefer polite phrasings over rude ones, and I'm certainly not going to tell you how you should communicate to LLM models, however it's interesting to note that being somewhat rude and to the point seems to have some objective advantages, see for example:
Mind Your Tone: Investigating How Prompt Politeness Affects LLM Accuracy (short paper)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.04950
Understanding Tone-Dependent Inference Cost in Large Language Models
https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.23915
I would hate for this style of communication to leak through to daily communications with humans (e.g. colleagues) though, so even just for that it can make sense to hold on to a polite form of communication :-).
I know at least about the first paper. But I'm pretty sure that heavily depends on the model and I'm not sure how reproducible those studies were.
I for myself use the trick to ask the model, after I explained what it has to do, what it thinks about my proposal. Of course I have no scientific evidence but to me it feels as it prevents some misunderstandings and the model follows more correctly my intention.