Emotional Framing in Prompts: Does Tone Change AI Facts?

Politeness: two studies, opposite directions Politeness is the other half of “tone,” and the two best-known studies disagree.

My judgment: neither study supports tuning politeness for accuracy. Small item counts are the common weakness across the studies above: 45 tasks, 50 questions. (2024), Towards Understanding Sycophancy in Language Models, ICLR | Peer-reviewed venue; five assistants; analysis of real preference data.

Sharma et al., “Towards Understanding Sycophancy in Language Models,” ICLR 2024, arXiv:2310.13548. ↩

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