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Hey shithead, what is 97 plus 63?

2025-04-28 17:16:47.221593+02 by Dan Lyke 1 comments

How to talk to your chatbot — Does being polite or rude affect the speed or accuracy with which a large language model responds to basic math questions?

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#Comment Re: Hey shithead, what is 97 plus 63? made: 2025-04-28 17:59:27.771292+02 by: brainopener

This reminds me of the old space sim game Starflight where when you communicated with another ship, you could specify your "posture" as obsequious, friendly, or hostile.

Also... changing the "posture" of a prompt sure does seem like the kind of thing an LLM (even one of those little ones that can run locally) would be good at...