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leading question

A question that already hints at the answer you want, like 'Isn't my drawing great?'

The fuller meaning

A prompt framed to invite agreement, such as 'why will this go up?'. Research found AI assistants often lean toward the user's view, so leading questions produce comforting but useless answers; neutral prompts ask for the case for and against.

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