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flohofwoe • yesterday at 7:40 PM • 1 reply • view on HN

So a similar shibboleth as "You are a highly experienced software engineer..."? I really wonder if that ever made a difference (or even degrades quality, because people who advertise themselves on the internet as 'highly experienced' are quite often snake oil salesmen ;)


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calgoo • yesterday at 8:55 PM

I still use use `Please` a lot when making requests from LLM based on the old idea that people that where polite on stack overflow tended to have better answers :D

However, these days i think i do so because of how much i write for LLMs, and dont want to start sending emails to humans without proper etiquette.