Comment by simonw

I find it so interesting that OpenAI themselves use "please" in some of their prompts, eg:

"Please evaluate the following rubrics internally and then perform one of the actions below:"

Have they run evaluations that show that including "please" there causes the model to follow those instructions better?

I'm still looking for a robust process to answer those kinds of questions about my own prompts. I'd love to hear how they make these decisions.