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Rude prompts may improve LLM accuracy

I was under the impression that being polite or rude with LLMs doesn't make sense. Well... I was wrong.

The recent research shows that more impolite prompts yield higher accuracy. The "Very Rude" prompts achieved the highest average accuracy (84.8%) while "Very Polite" prompts gave around 80.8%.

The research was focused on ChatGPT-4o and use paired t-tests to assess whether differences in accuracy across tones are statistically significant. It would be interesting to see how it works with Claude or Gemini.

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