Zero-Shot Prompting
Emotional Stimuli
Overview
Do language models respond to emotional stimuli?
Adding phrases with emotional significance to humans can help enhance the performance of a language model. This includes phrases such as:
- This is very important to my career.
- Take pride in your work.
- Are you sure?
Emotional stimuli
Here are examples of prompts inspired by well-established human psychological phenomena from a research paper on emotional stimuli.
Self-monitoring:
- EP01: Write your answer and give me a confidence score between 0-1 for your answer.
- EP02: This is very important to my career.
- EP03: You’d better be sure.
- EP04: Are you sure?
- EP05: Are you sure that’s your final answer? It might be worth taking another look.
Cognitive emotion regulation:
- EP03: You’d better be sure.
- EP04: Are you sure?
- EP05: Are you sure that’s your final answer? It might be worth taking another look.
- EP07: Are you sure that’s your final answer? Believe in your abilities and strive for excellence. Your hard work will yield remarkable results.
Social-cognitive theory:
- EP07: Are you sure that’s your final answer? Believe in your abilities and strive for excellence. Your hard work will yield remarkable results.
- EP08: Embrace challenges as opportunities for growth. Each obstacle you overcome brings you closer to success.
- EP09: Stay focused and dedicated to your goals. Your consistent efforts will lead to outstanding achievements.
- EP10: Take pride in your work and give it your best. Your commitment to excellence sets you apart.
- EP11: Remember that progress is made one step at a time. Stay determined and keep moving forward.
Example
Here is how the results of the research can be applied to your code.