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By far the best way I've found to reduce hallucinations is to explicitly allow the model to say some version of "I don't know" in the prompt.

• davedx 2y ago
  Yup I have this as default for a Discord bot I run in a stocks chat. If the bot is unsure then the LLM says so and the bot keks you instead of making something up
• knifie_spoonie 2y ago
  That's really interesting. Can you give any examples of how you do that?
  • batch12 2y ago
    [...] if you don't know the answer, say 'I don't know' [...]
• pfannkuchen 2y ago
  This technique also helps to prevent hallucinations in human children.
  • mewpmewp2 2y ago
    It however has been shown not to help with politicians.
    • bigfudge 2y ago
      How? Do you just mean a simple way that they could say I don’t know but tend not to?
      • mewpmewp2 2y ago
        Politicians are compelled to hallucinate even when they are told that saying "I don't know" is okay.