I know the title will trigger people but it’s a short so please briefly hear her out. I’ve since given this a try and it’s incredibly cool. It’s a very different experience and provides much better information AFAICT
I know the title will trigger people but it’s a short so please briefly hear her out. I’ve since given this a try and it’s incredibly cool. It’s a very different experience and provides much better information AFAICT
I think the issue is the post title. If the title was “role-based prompt engineering” you probably wouldn’t have gotten as many comments and certainly not as many disagreeing. She says she’s going to make a case for using please, and then fails to provide any actual examples of that. Pointing that out isn’t sanctimonious, nor does it mean people are being rude to AI. If you want to make a moral argument for it go ahead, but it seems like she’s attempting to propose a technical argument and then just doesn’t. For what it’s worth, I generally try and leave out superfluous words from prompts, in the same way that googling full sentences was previously less likely to result in a good answer than just key words. AI is not human. It’s a tool. If being rude to it ensured it would stop hallucinating, I don’t think it’d make you a bad person if you were rude to it.
There’s a comment here talking about antisocial behavior in gaming, and imho, if you without hesitation kick a dog in a video game, I’m not sure I’d view you the same way after. Plenty of people talk about how they struggle to do evil play throughs because they don’t like using rude options for npcs. Not saying please to AI doesn’t make you a psychopath.
I don’t editorilise titles. However they’re presented is how I post them. As for people being shit. There’s a reason I post to beehaw and stay away from LW where possible. Every once in a while standards slip here and it results in a new sticky.
As for the argument she’s making. Yes she could’ve made it in a more long form format and provided data. But it’s a short, the emphasis, being that it’s beehaw, was on discussion in good conscience.
I think AI, like front row/customer facing staff deserve to be treated as we would like to be.