Handling Hallucinations via Prompting

Summary

Prompt-level techniques (asking for citations, allowing 'I don't know', grounding in provided context) that reduce — though never fully eliminate — a model inventing false information.

• 1Test prompts that explicitly permit 'I don't know' and observe the effect on made-up answers.
• 2Practice grounding prompts in provided context and instructing the model not to go beyond it.
• 3Learn why prompting alone can't fully solve hallucination — this motivates RAG in a later phase.