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pith:ZHE74RHF

pith:2025:ZHE74RHFBFHTN6P73TSXYVDKYF
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No for Some, Yes for Others: Persona Prompts and Other Sources of False Refusal in Language Models

Dirk Hovy, Elmar Plischke, Emanuele Borgonovo, Flor Miriam Plaza-del-Arco, Nino Scherrer, Paul R\"ottger

arxiv:2509.08075 v1 · 2025-09-09 · cs.CL

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\pithnumber{ZHE74RHFBFHTN6P73TSXYVDKYF}

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4 Citations open
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First computed 2026-07-05T12:08:21.832796Z
Builder pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature Pith Ed25519 (pith-v1-2026-05) · public key
Schema pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

c9c9fe44e5094f36f9ffdce57c546ac16da3dcb20c5fbeb50658a5807ee8795b

Aliases

arxiv: 2509.08075 · arxiv_version: 2509.08075v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2509.08075 · pith_short_12: ZHE74RHFBFHT · pith_short_16: ZHE74RHFBFHTN6P7 · pith_short_8: ZHE74RHF
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Verify this Pith Number yourself
curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/ZHE74RHFBFHTN6P73TSXYVDKYF \
  | jq -c '.canonical_record' \
  | python3 -c "import sys,json,hashlib; b=json.dumps(json.loads(sys.stdin.read()), sort_keys=True, separators=(',',':'), ensure_ascii=False).encode(); print(hashlib.sha256(b).hexdigest())"
# expect: c9c9fe44e5094f36f9ffdce57c546ac16da3dcb20c5fbeb50658a5807ee8795b
Canonical record JSON
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    "abstract_canon_sha256": "9ab610aaf6b8b2eac3e20920dd20399b7357719d375a754a3792f3bf3f338f31",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CL",
    "submitted_at": "2025-09-09T18:30:01Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "804b948d464be6ab51e995c46c69e26381e759428111b3c830a0e9c52af53045"
  },
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  "source": {
    "id": "2509.08075",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}