Understanding Tone-Dependent Inference Cost in Large Language Models — 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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