2026-04-17

๐Ÿ”— Platformer News: The scientific case for being nice to your chatbot:

Being polite to a large language model can feel strange or even silly โ€” roughly equivalent to thanking a toaster. And yet a recent paper from Anthropic lends scientific weight to the theory that chatbots work better when youโ€™re nice to them.

Looks like in this brave new world, we’ll all be saying thank-you to our doors. ๐Ÿ˜€

That said, I did apologise to Claude today when I interrupted it’s work while trying to adjust permissions.