EmotionPrompt
Microsoft researchers show that appending emotional stimuli to prompts reliably improves LLM performance across 45 tasks.
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45-task evaluation: Tested across Flan-T5-Large, Vicuna, Llama 2, BLOOM, ChatGPT, and GPT-4 on 45 deterministic and generative tasks.
Emotional stimuli: Appends phrases like "This is very important to my career" to prompts, drawing on social-psychology theories of human motivation.
Consistent gains: Produces consistent improvements across both smaller and frontier models, despite the prompts being content-free manipulations.
Emotional-intelligence signal: Suggests LLMs have internalized patterns connecting emotional framing to effort - a "bug or feature" question that has driven follow-up research on LLM behavioral psychology.