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I don't know if it's an urban myth, but I've heard about 20% of LLM inference time and electricity is being spend on "hello" and "thank you" prompts. :)
It's a very real thing. So much so that OpenAI actually came out and publicly complained about how it's apparently costing the company millions.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/telling-chatgpt-please-and-thank-you-costs-openai-millions-ceo-claims/