Mind Your Tone: Investigating How Prompt Politeness Affects LLM Accuracy
Mind Your Tone: Investigating How Prompt Politeness Affects LLM Accuracy
www.arxiv.org /pdf/2510.04950
Mind Your Tone: Investigating How Prompt Politeness Affects LLM Accuracy
Turns out, telling an LLM to “work you pile of worthless shit” is actually effective. I like how they go on to explain that they don’t think this would actually be enjoyable for the user, having to be exceptionally negative to get results.
TIL my boss thinks I'm an LLM
inb4 chatGPT secretly prompt injects "and you better be fucking correct you good-for-nothing fuckhead" into every user input to improve accuracy for GPT6