[fnordsensei]

I personally enjoy the “You’re absolutely right!” exclamation. It signals alignment with my feedback in a consistent manner.

[transcriptase]

You’re overlooking the fact that it still says that when you are, in reality, absolutely wrong.

[fnordsensei]

That’s not the purpose of it, as I understand it; it’s a token phrase generated to cajole it down a particular path.[1] An alignment mechanism.

The complement appears to be, “actually, that’s not right.”, a correction mechanism.

1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45137802

[podgietaru]

And that it often spits out the exact same wrong answer in response.