From: The Wall Street Journal
AI Doesn’t Care if You’re Polite to It. You Should Be Anyway
I often catch myself prefacing my queries to ChatGPT with a “please” and concluding with a “thank you.” Apparently, I am not alone. A December 2024 survey published by TechRadar found that approximately 67% of U.S. AI users are also polite and show gratitude toward AI search engines.
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What’s true of gratitude is also true of kindness and generosity more generally. Sonja Lyubomirsky, professor of psychology at UC Riverside and author of the book “The How of Happiness,” conducted experiments where participants were asked to perform “five small acts of kindness per week.” She found that these small, frequent acts led to consistent and significant increases in happiness.
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