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"Contrary to expectations, impolite prompts consistently outperformed polite ones, with accuracy ranging from 80.8% for Very Polite prompts to 84.8% for Very Rude prompts."
arxiv.org/abs/2510.04950
arxiv.org
Mind Your Tone: Investigating How Prompt Politeness Affects LLM Accuracy (short paper)
The wording of natural language prompts has been shown to influence the performance of large language models (LLMs), yet the role of politeness and tone remains underexplored. In this study, we invest...