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Wait, Being "very rude" to an LLM gives you 4% accuracy boost.

“Mind Your Tone: Investigating How Prompt Politeness Affects LLM Accuracy”

By Om Dobariya and Akhil Kumar (Penn State University), October 2025.

Prompt tone Accuracy Very polite 80.8% Polite 81.4% Neutral 82.2% Rude 82.8% Very rude 84.8%

parent fergonco 5 days ago

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