alt Hacker NewsGiven that LLMs are trained on humans, who don't respond well to being dehumanised, I expect anthropomorphising them to be better than the opposite of that.
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/worklab/why-using-a-polite-t...
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martin-t • 05/15/2025
I am not talking about getting it to generate useful output, treating it extra politely or threatening with fines seems to give better results sometimes so why not, I am talking about the phrase "gets it". It does not get anything.
Aside from just getting more useful responses back, I think it's just bad for your brain to treat something that acts like a person with disrespect. Becomes "it's just a chatbot", "It's just a dog", "It's just a low level customer support worker".