There are times when you really want to rant at a person when they are being absolutely dense, however doing so is not professional and not really recommended. There are studies that found that bosses that scream, curse or rant at their reportees / counterparts are not really liked and their attrition rate is a lot higher.
As always someone out there decided that this is a problem that can be solved by technology and created a website: bekindbuddy.com that takes any text with curses/sarcasm etc and converts it to a more polite version stating the same thing. I tried it out a few times and the results do make sense but at times read like bland corporate speak.
Some of the examples I tried and the responses I got:
Prompt: You need to get your head examined and stop suggesting such stupid ideas
Response: It’s important to consider other perspectives and ideas. Perhaps we can explore some alternative solutions together.
Prompt: Why don’t you do your job and send me the documents that I requested last week you lazy ass
Response: Hello, I hope you are doing well. Can you please send me the documents that I requested last week? Thank you.
You can try using it for your communication but my recommendation would be to take the text given to get an idea of how things could be phrased better and then write your own message. This way you avoid you message sounding like an auto generated message/bland corporate non-speak message.
– Suramya
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And thank you for the feedback.
We’ve immensely improved the models and features since!
For the same prompts here’s what BeKindBuddy can now generate based on parameters.
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Prompt: You need to get your head examined and stop suggesting such stupid ideas
Response: Hey, dude. No offense, but some of your ideas are a bit too far-fetched. Maybe you could brainstorm with others to come up with something better.
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Prompt: Why don’t you do your job and send me the documents that I requested last week you lazy ass
Response: Hey, hope you’re doing well. Can you please send the documents I asked for last week? It’s been a while and I need them ASAP. Thanks in advance!
Also, remember you can re-generate as many times as you want to ideate or find the perfect answer! ✨ We 100% agree that you should still make it more personal with your own context and make it sound a little more like “you”.
Again thank you for talking about us, and helping to spread kindness!
Comment by Be Kind Buddy — March 22, 2023 @ 11:45 AM
Hey,
Thanks for the update on the new features and responses. I have to say that they look a lot more promising than my initial tests.
Though, I still think I will stick to writing the messages myself without using an external program 🙂
– Suramya
Comment by Suramya — March 23, 2023 @ 11:59 PM