Ask HN: Do you use "please" when you interact with your LLMs?

2 orsenthil 5 6/22/2025, 2:55:16 PM

Do you use "please" when you interact with your LLMs? I do, I think, it is going to benefit, as our language shapes us in addition to the environment with we operate.

Comments (5)

p2detar · 7h ago

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

celticninja · 8h ago

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.

JoeAltmaier · 7h ago

I, as well. At the very least, they may kill me painlessly when the time comes.

irthomasthomas · 5h ago

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.

whobre · 5h ago

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

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Ask HN: Do you use "please" when you interact with your LLMs?

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