It will take a lot of evidence to convince me that asking politely, saying your job depends on the outcome, bribes or threats or any of this other voodoo is any more than just https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apophenia
Have a read of https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.01405. It describes how an emotional state can be identified as an emergent property of an LLM's activations, and how manipulating that emotional state can affect compliance to requests.
