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Re:Telling GPT-4 you're scared or under pressure improves pe... by lopatin on Saturday November 04, 2023 @07:20AM (#38140004)
Does this extend to politeness? If, in the training set, people are probably more likely to be helpful to a polite question, does that mean that ChatGPT will be more helpful if I ask the question politely? My intuition is yes, but I wonder if this is confirmed.
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Re:Telling GPT-4 you're scared or under pressure improves pe... by jstarfish on Saturday November 04, 2023 @03:03PM (#38144086)
Anecdotally, I've had good results this way. Expressing gratitude for good results has gone a long way toward not having those results be forgotten in later context. It crafts an emotionally-guided narrative for it to follow. Positive reactions seem to carry weight.

When I'm lazy and terse, pasting an input and just saying enhance-enhance-enhance without acknowledging its "humanity" frequently results in old unwanted responses being returned or the topic of the conversation being forgotten altogether.

DogGPT vs. CatGPT.

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