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In the plethora of all these articles that explain the process of building projects with LLMs, one thing I never understood it why the authors seem to write the prompts as if talking to a human that cares how good their grammar or syntax is, e.g.:

> I'd like to add email support to this bot. Let's think through how we would do this.

and I'm not not even talking about the usage of "please" or "thanks" (which this particular author doesn't seem to be doing).

Is there any evidence that suggests the models do a better job if I write my prompt like this instead of "wanna add email support, think how to do this"? In my personal experience (mostly with Junie) I haven't seen any advantage of being "polite", for lack of a better word, and I feel like I'm saving on seconds and tokens :)

parent cpt_sobel 7 months ago

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