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Wait, Being "very rude" to an LLM gives you 4% accuracy boost.

“Mind Your Tone: Investigating How Prompt Politeness Affects LLM Accuracy”

By Om Dobariya and Akhil Kumar (Penn State University), October 2025.

Prompt tone Accuracy Very polite 80.8% Polite 81.4% Neutral 82.2% Rude 82.8% Very rude 84.8%

Do those results reproduce with any other model than GPT-4o? A year-old paper analyzing a then-18-month-old LLM has dubious applicability to current LLMs, especially when some now have guardrails against persistently or arbitrarily rude users.

This is what programming has been reduced to? Optimizing your tone instead of your code?

Can’t wait for the adverb benchmarks.

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