Do you say please and thank you to your LLMs?
This is an orthogonal question to whether LLMs have qualia (almost certainly no) and to the question of whether any hypothetical qualia would be in any way correlated with word choice (also almost certainly no), as opposed to mechanistic factors such as runtime and memory access patterns.
when I use chinese which is my first language, no, never.
when I use english, yes, not every time, but about 50% chance.
I certainly say please and thank you. Whether or not it makes a difference to the LLM, it makes a difference to me. I want to retain some humanity and politeness in my own behavior, even if I spend an inordinate amount of time communicating with, instructing, and debating a non-sentient piece of code.
I do. I justify the action via mechanical / prompting logic (my instructions are to treat me as an informed peer and my understanding is that keeping the whole conversation in "two peers talking" register makes it easier for the LLM to maintain that mode).
But, more honestly, it's just a social habit and saving keystrokes isn't worth training myself out of it.
Yup. When it does me dirty, I let it know my entire emotional spectrum.
I used to, but it just means an extra round of conversation, so I stopped.
No, it doesn’t have feelings - it would be like asking your washing machine to please wash your pants? Anthropomorphising LLMs seems deeply unhealthy.
yes, it goes naturally most of the time, i also say good job and don't hold my thoughts if the job is bad
Since every token costs money and I dont think they are conscious, never.
ofc, i joke that if an AI becomes evil, it will query the database for our chat history
All the time. Sometimes it does an absolutely bang-up job.
I do, just in case the robots take over :p