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There is no need for respect, do you respect your phone? Do you respect the ls utility? Treat it as as search engine, and I wish it used the tone for the replies that makes it clear that it is just a tool and not a conversation partner, and not use misleading phrases like "I am excited/I am happy to hear" etc. How can a bunch of numbers be happy.

Maybe we need to make a blacklist of misleading expressions for AI developers.

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The tone you take with it can demonstrably affect the results you get, which isn't true of the other tools you listed.

This is a bug that needs to be fixed.

Whether or not that's true doesn't the efficacy of the advice given above.

Why? I for one prefer to live in a world where people are nicer by default, without first engaging in mental calculus about whether the other side is sufficiently like them to merit niceties.

Do what you want, i am not risking offending the machine spirit.

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