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Handling Hallucinations via Prompting
Part of the AI Engineer Roadmap
In short
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.
How to learn this
- 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.
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