I was watching an upload by Prompt Engineering on the SmolAgents agentic rag project. In it they talk about the importance of forming questions in the same affirmative voice that the LLM will respond with. My understanding is fuzzy here. Language is not my strongest subject. So maybe ELI5 please. What is “asking questions in an affirmative voice,” and more importantly, what is it in contrast to other forms of voicing?
The difference would be “How do you think we can prevent this in the future?” Vs “What the fuck were you thinking?!?”
Both questions are trying to figure out what went wrong, but one of them is more pleasant.