Should We Respect LLMs? A Cross-Lingual Study on the Influence of Prompt Politeness on LLM Performance · HackerPapers discussions

Should We Respect LLMs? A Cross-Lingual Study on the Influence of Prompt Politeness on LLM Performance — mentioned by guessmyname

Sun, 11 Oct 2026 02:38:46 GMT

Yes, I found the paper for you: • https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.04950 — Mind Your Tone: Investigating How Prompt Politeness Affects LLM Accuracy • https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.14531 — Should We Respect LLMs? A Cross-Lingual Study on the Influence of Prompt Politeness on LLM Performance • https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.17332 — SweEval: Do LLMs Really Swear? A Safety Benchmark for Testing Limits for Enterprise Use

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Should We Respect LLMs? A Cross-Lingual Study on the Influence of Prompt Politeness on LLM Performance — mentioned by gchamonlive

Sun, 05 Apr 2026 13:33:07 GMT

Politeness have impact (https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.14531) so I wouldn't be too fast to make any kind of claim with a technology we don't know exactly how it works.

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Should We Respect LLMs? A Cross-Lingual Study on the Influence of Prompt Politeness on LLM Performance — mentioned by ben_w

Fri, 20 Feb 2026 10:05:59 GMT

And just like a real employee, this makes it work worse. (Old study, I wonder if it holds up on newer models? https://arxiv.org/pdf/2402.14531)

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Should We Respect LLMs? A Cross-Lingual Study on the Influence of Prompt Politeness on LLM Performance — mentioned by wongarsu

Wed, 24 Sep 2025 01:23:50 GMT

Depends on the model, but e.g. [1] found many models perform better if you are more polite. Though interestingly being rude can also sometimes improve performance at the cost of higher bias Intuitively it makes sense. The best sources tend to be either of moderately high politeness (professional language) or 4chan-like (rude, biased but honest) 1: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2402.14531

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Should We Respect LLMs? A Cross-Lingual Study on the Influence of Prompt Politeness on LLM Performance — mentioned by CharlesW

Tue, 02 Sep 2025 22:52:05 GMT

Good creators tend to treat their tools with respect, and I can't imagine any reason we shouldn't feel gratitude toward our tools after a particularly satisfying session. Also, there may be selfish reasons to do this as well: (1) "Should We Respect LLMs? A Cross-Lingual Study on the Influence of Prompt Politeness on LLM Performance" https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.14531 (2) "Three Things to Know About Prompting LLMs" https://sloanreview.mit.edu/article/three-things-to-know-abo...

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Should We Respect LLMs? A Cross-Lingual Study on the Influence of Prompt Politeness on LLM Performance — HN submission

Tue, 22 Apr 2025 12:35:12 GMT

Should We Respect LLMs? A Study on Influence of Prompt Politeness on Performance

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Should We Respect LLMs? A Cross-Lingual Study on the Influence of Prompt Politeness on LLM Performance — HN submission

Tue, 25 Feb 2025 18:53:26 GMT

The Influence of Prompt Politeness on LLM Performance

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Should We Respect LLMs? A Cross-Lingual Study on the Influence of Prompt Politeness on LLM Performance — mentioned by numpad0

Sun, 17 Mar 2024 08:34:45 GMT

Basically always worse in languages other than English. Not sure if it's just from volume of dataset or if it has to do with dataset quality, or the GPT architecture is inherently English-centric, but LLMs don't have like, a universal subconscious with superficial English frontend wrapping UG, like such that would support !(sapir-whorf). LLMs so far are kind of English-based thinking machine(if we were to recognize their apparent behavior as "thinking"). Below is just cherry-picked search results, selected largely by whether last few lines in the abstracts support my narrative, but I mean…

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Should We Respect LLMs? A Cross-Lingual Study on the Influence of Prompt Politeness on LLM Performance — HN submission

Thu, 29 Feb 2024 17:07:42 GMT

Should We Respect LLMs? Studying the Influence of Politeness on LLM Performance

1 point; 2 discussion replies on HN. Paper and source history. A submission is not an endorsement.