#ai #artificialintelligence #airesearch #promptengineering… | Avi Hakhamanesh | 37 comments

🧠💡 Does AI have emotional intelligence? A recent study explored how adding emotional prompts — you know, those encouraging phrases your high school basketball coach shouted — could enhance the capabilities of Large Language Models (LLMs) like ChatGPT. The researchers introduced 'EmotionPrompt,' a novel method that weaves emotional cues into prompts. This method was inspired by psychological research which found that adding emotional stimuli related to confidence, social influence, and setting clear expectations can positively impact human behavior and performance. Researchers designed 11 sentences, including the ones below, and added them to their original prompt (full list in comments ⬇️):" 💠 ”This is very important to my career.” 💠 “You'd better be sure.” 💠”Take pride in you work and give it your best. Your commitment to excellence sets you apart.” What they found was fascinating: 🔷 AI can actually “understand” or pick up on emotional subtext and respond more effectively when we get ‘emotional’ with it. 🔷 Emotional prompts using words like “confidence" and “success” enhanced AI's performance with accuracy gains of 10-30% across 45 tasks and multiple LLMs, including ChatGPT, GPT-4 and Llama 2. 🔷 This approach led to more clear, relevant, creative, ethically responsible and well-structured responses backed by supporting evidence. (I was struck that the outputs reflected deeper ethical awareness and consideration). 🔷 This method outperformed existing prompt engineering techniques like “Chain of Thought Prompting” in most cases, while remaining compatible with them. It turns out AI is a lot like us humans - just a few encouraging words go a long way! But why did it work? The researchers’ hypothesis: 1️⃣ Emotional cues enhance attention to the key parts of the original prompt, making certain words more impactful. 2️⃣ Positive words like "confidence," "sure," "success," and "achievement" contribute significantly to performance, with over 50% on some tasks and approaching 70% on others. The beauty of this approach? Its simplicity. It effortlessly boosts LLMs' performance without the need for advanced prompting techniques. But it has its limitation too. While generally beneficial, emotional cues sometimes led to overly assertive or decisive language. And different phrases were more useful for some tasks than others. At the core of this study is a powerful truth: Our emotions are the key driver of our behavior and actions. And AI is a mirror that reflects who we are back to us, offering us the chance to learn more about ourselves.   For a deeper dive, check out the link to the study in the comments 👇. I’ve also dropped the full list of emotional cues in case you want to experiment with adding a few to your prompts. I’ll experiment with using some and report back. What do you think of all this? #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #AIResearch #PromptEngineering #EmotionalIntelligence #ChatGPT #GPT4 | 37 comments on LinkedIn