How you address ChatGPT can affect your response

Researchers at the University of Southern California have found that conversational robots like ChatGPT perform much better when addressed politely. — AFP Relaxnews

“Compose a message to customer service about a lost package”, “Can you rewrite this paragraph to make it more concise?”... It’s not always easy to know how to talk to ChatGPT. However researchers at the University of Southern California have found that conversational robots like ChatGPT perform much better when addressed politely.

Abel Salinas and Fred Morstatter came to this conclusion after testing different “prompts” (written requests) with several large language models, including ChatGPT. The academics, for example, added spaces at the beginning and end of their requests, or punctuated them with polite formulas.