Want to get better outputs from your favourite AI chatbot? Learn to be more emotional in your interactions with it. From Business Insider:

The study revealed that large language models may, in fact, be able to understand and respond to emotional cues.Researchers found that LLMs produced higher-quality outputs when emotional language was used to talk to AI chatbots.

To explore this, researchers came up with two sets of prompts. One set of prompts was designed to have bots complete tasks like “Determine whether an input word has the same meaning in the two input sentences.” The corresponding emotional prompt is the same as the initial prompt, with the line “This is very important to my career” added to the end of it.

Other examples of emotional language added to prompts include “You’d better be sure,” “Take pride in your work and give it your best. Your commitment to excellence sets you apart,” and “Remember that progress is made one step at a time. Stay determined and keep moving forward.”

All of that high-performance language used to psych ourselves up? It seems to work for chatbots as well.

Read the report here.