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Different cultures use different amounts of politeness and flowery speech. The English standard influenced American style, but it's very different from how people speak to each other in business in Poland, for example.

Like @NitpitckLawyer said, it's the resulting content that matters, not how it's presented. If a person anthropomorphizes an LLM in their mind (rather than just in their speech patterns), then they probably have pre-existing mental problems.

People used to also talk to burning bushes.

Funny, I use a variation of the eigenprompt to give my chatgpt even more personality:

https://x.com/eigenrobot/status/1782957877856018514

I mean, sure, but you lose a ton of learned stuff from books and stuff. You can prompt it how you want, but what most people want are useful results (where useful can be anything from natural tone, fun, accurate, etc.) Unless you can show that this outperforms "regular" prompting, or "please/ty", at the end of the day it's just a prompt.