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Should you be nice to your chatbot?

Should you be nice to your chatbot?
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The Wall Street Journal
By Preetika Rana California couple Vikas Choudhary and Ridhi Sahni can’t agree on one thing: How polite must you be with ChatGPT?Choudhary, the founder of an artificial intelligence startup based in Palo Alto, has fawned over the chatbot from OpenAI ever since it helped him to squash a massive bug in his code. “You’re a rock star,” he once told the AI chatbot.“I’m super thankful for it, and I thank it quite a bit, actually – especially if I think I was rude to it earlier,” said Choudhary...

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