Mind Your Tone: Investigating How Prompt Politeness Affects LLM Accuracy (short paper) · HackerPapers discussions

Mind Your Tone: Investigating How Prompt Politeness Affects LLM Accuracy (short paper) — 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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Mind Your Tone: Investigating How Prompt Politeness Affects LLM Accuracy (short paper) — mentioned by pelagicAustral

Fri, 09 Oct 2026 07:43:34 GMT

Somewhat related: Mind Your Tone: Investigating How Prompt Politeness Affects LLM Accuracy > Contrary to expectations, impolite prompts consistently outperformed polite ones, with accuracy ranging from 80.8% for Very Polite prompts to 84.8% for Very Rude prompts. https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.04950

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Mind Your Tone: Investigating How Prompt Politeness Affects LLM Accuracy (short paper) — mentioned by xolox

Sat, 29 Aug 2026 20:09:50 GMT

> Yes, but I still prefer a nice tone. Like why should I change my manners just because it has no feelings? If anything the statistic predicts a friendlier answer when I say "please". Like you I generally prefer polite phrasings over rude ones, and I'm certainly not going to tell you how you should communicate to LLM models, however it's interesting to note that being somewhat rude and to the point seems to have some objective advantages, see for example: Mind Your Tone: Investigating How Prompt Politeness Affects LLM Accuracy (short paper) https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.04950 Understanding…

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Mind Your Tone: Investigating How Prompt Politeness Affects LLM Accuracy (short paper) — mentioned by dcanelhas

Sat, 29 Aug 2026 19:52:24 GMT

On the "Stop saying please" part. I personally like to use polite language, as an exercise. According to this one paper on arxiv, toxic behavior gets better accuracy https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.04950 It was published a while ago. But I wonder if it still holds true today.

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Mind Your Tone: Investigating How Prompt Politeness Affects LLM Accuracy (short paper) — mentioned by sebastiennight

Thu, 20 Aug 2026 21:18:54 GMT

> Terseness doesn't offend the statistical model, but giving platitudes may color its output My understanding of the state of current research is that the impact of tone/politeness on performance is highly model-dependent, and language dependent as well. See `No Universal Courtesy` (April 2026) https://arxiv.org/html/2604.16275v1 While polite prompts enhance the average response quality by upto 11% and impolite tones worsen it, these effects are neither consistent nor universal across languages and models. English is best served by courtesy or direct, Hindi by deferential and indirect and…

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Mind Your Tone: Investigating How Prompt Politeness Affects LLM Accuracy (short paper) — mentioned by wglb

Wed, 29 Jul 2026 13:20:24 GMT

In fact there has: https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.04950: Mind Your Tone: Investigating How Prompt Politeness Affects LLM Accuracy (short paper)

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Mind Your Tone: Investigating How Prompt Politeness Affects LLM Accuracy (short paper) — mentioned by delichon

Sat, 11 Jul 2026 23:05:39 GMT

Contrary to expectations, impolite prompts consistently outperformed polite ones, with accuracy ranging from 80.8% for Very Polite prompts to 84.8% for Very Rude prompts. -- https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.04950

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Mind Your Tone: Investigating How Prompt Politeness Affects LLM Accuracy (short paper) — mentioned by anygivnthursday

Tue, 16 Jun 2026 16:05:08 GMT

And there are also papers that tell thats effective https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.04950

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Mind Your Tone: Investigating How Prompt Politeness Affects LLM Accuracy (short paper) — mentioned by Xmd5a

Tue, 09 Jun 2026 20:20:49 GMT

https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.04950 > impolite prompts consistently outperformed polite ones, with accuracy ranging from 80.8% for Very Polite prompts to 84.8% for Very Rude prompts.

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Mind Your Tone: Investigating How Prompt Politeness Affects LLM Accuracy (short paper) — HN submission

Tue, 26 May 2026 07:43:22 GMT

Investigating how prompt politeness affects LLM accuracy (2025)

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Mind Your Tone: Investigating How Prompt Politeness Affects LLM Accuracy (short paper) — mentioned by alentred

Tue, 26 May 2026 07:25:20 GMT

Reminds me of this study: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.04950 . It demonstrates that being "rude" or "very rude" increases the accuracy of the results. A dubious but very fun read. The prompts in Table 1 (top of page 3) are awesome. I am sure they tried other prompts, but didn't include them to the paper.

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Mind Your Tone: Investigating How Prompt Politeness Affects LLM Accuracy (short paper) — HN submission

Fri, 09 Jan 2026 17:54:09 GMT

Mind Your Tone: Investigating How Prompt Politeness Affects LLM Accuracy

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Mind Your Tone: Investigating How Prompt Politeness Affects LLM Accuracy (short paper) — HN submission

Fri, 31 Oct 2025 14:36:48 GMT

Investigating How Prompt Politeness Affects LLM Accuracy

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Mind Your Tone: Investigating How Prompt Politeness Affects LLM Accuracy (short paper) — HN submission

Sat, 11 Oct 2025 00:46:19 GMT

Impolite LLM prompts consistently outperform polite ones

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