Smack talk your LLMs. Get better output.

Rude prompts to LLMs consistently lead to better results than polite ones 😀

The authors found that very polite and polite tones reduced accuracy, while neutral, rude, and very rude tones improved it.

Statistical tests confirmed that the differences were significant, not… pic.twitter.com/TWT66SFnxe

— Rohan Paul (@rohanpaul_ai) January 18, 2026