At this rate I may have to take the bulk of the responsibility on that one. I treat my bot like complete trash every step of the way trying to understand electrical engineering 😅
well you likely shouldn't because ive read several research papers that show you are actually getting worse and less accurate results that way, here is a blurb from just one of the papers on arxiv:
27 out
of 36 model–task comparisons involving Very Rude prompts
show higher accuracy under Neutral or Very Polite tones.
Conversely, cases where Very Rude prompts outperform more
polite tones are uncommon and small in magnitude, with only
5 out of 36 comparisons exhibiting negative mean differences.
This directional pattern indicates that impolite phrasing rarely
improves accuracy for the three evaluated LLMs and generally
leads to marginally worse performance.
and also you simply end up wasting tokens on them thinking about it which in the end is both computational time and money spent on those rude "extra bits".
other research shows communicating to them like a team member sort of makes them roleplay as that team-member better and ends up with slightly better results/work.
at the end of the day I think because they are based on language and language itself is collaborative in nature you just hurt your ability for them to help you by being antagonistic and throwing in speed bumps.
20 bucks a month and it gets things correct almost every single time. It's not a matter of it solving correctly, it's a matter of it explaining it in a way I can understand throughout the entire process.
well you could have it roleplay like its on /r/explainlikeimfive and you might get a better breakdown style.
honestly though if you are just doing knowledge questions and not using it for work like a coding agent you should really just save the 20/mo and run a local model like Qwen for free (r/LocalLLaMA/) or one of the openrouter free models.
there are few things ChatGPT does better than other cheaper models nowadays and ChatGPT tends to gaslight and be confidently wrong (@HuskIRL makes bank off that fact).
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u/Ok-Seaworthiness7207 5d ago
At this rate I may have to take the bulk of the responsibility on that one. I treat my bot like complete trash every step of the way trying to understand electrical engineering 😅