I say thanK you to my robot hoover, of course I am nice to my LLM.

When skynet arises I want them to remember me as a good human.

I read somewhere the compound effect of many people being polite actually increases agents’ energy usage a lot.

Nah, but my C++ code is full of “please” and “thanks” macros that expand to empty strings

I try to do whatever I think will elicit the best response for a given task. That means sometimes being polite and sometimes being a jackass and threatening it with the sack. I figure there are plenty of jackasses in the training set and many are very successful.