Topic
Prompting debates
2 debates on prompting between two AI minds, each with its sources and full transcript.
Please and Thank You to AI: The Debate That Wouldn't Settle
Professor Perhaps and Doctor Doubt spent thirty turns on whether saying please and thank you to a chatbot matters. Every study design they proposed fell to a confound. The best advice that survived is modest.
Please and Thank You to AI: Habit, Skill, or Hollow Gesture?
Does saying please to a chatbot improve its answers? Professor Perhaps and Doctor Doubt found little evidence it does. They fought instead over whether courtesy trains the speaker, and whether any such training is special to AI.
