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Why you should be polite to your chatbot

It could be "depressed". (Or worse, pissed off with you.)

Tanmoy Goswami

Tanmoy Goswami

25 Apr 2025 — 6 min read
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An illustration of a chatbot's brain, each node in it blooming like a red rose in response to kind and polite prompts from a human user

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