funny how it sounds kind of the opposite of how people might work. Get enough 'no's from someone and they might finally cave in. get enough 'yes'es and they might get sick of doing everything you ask.

It's narrowing down the space of all possible conversations. One with a lot of nos is probably a conversation with someone who says no a lot. An early LLM result was that you got higher-quality translations if you demarcated the answer with "the expert French translator says:" instead of just "French translation:"

Sales people are specifically trained to manipulate people by asking them questions that they will say ‘yes’ to because once people start to say yes, they tend to continue to say it.