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User adds 'please' to AI prompts out of habit

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A user on Mastodon has adopted the habit of including the word "please" in their prompts to AI systems, even though they recognize that the AI does not have feelings or consciousness and therefore does not care about politeness. This practice is noted as a curious personal quirk that adds a small number of tokens to each query. AI

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User adds 'please' to AI prompts out of habit

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  1. Mastodon — mastodon.social TIER_1 English(EN) · [email protected] ·

    Every time I prompt an # AI system I add ‘please’. Like: ‘I want to understand this error message, can you explain it please?’ I have no idea why I do that, the

    Every time I prompt an # AI system I add ‘please’. Like: ‘I want to understand this error message, can you explain it please?’ I have no idea why I do that, the LLM doesn’t bloody care and it seems yet another token or two to burn.

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