How to Design Prompts That Make AI Ask Clarifying Questions
A clarify-before-answer gate is an explicit prompt rule that tells a model to ask, declare its assumptions, or stop when a request is missing something it needs.…
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7 published articlesHow to Evaluate and Reduce Hallucinations in LLM Workflows
Hallucinations are best handled as two linked tasks: measuring them with a labelled evaluation set, and reducing them with grounded retrieval plus an output guardrail. This guide…
Prompt Engineering: A Practical Guide to Instructions, Examples, and Evaluation
Prompt engineering is the practice of writing, testing, and revising the instructions given to a language model so its output reliably serves a defined purpose. This guide…
Why AI Answers Can Sound Confident and Still Be Wrong
A language model's confident tone is a property of its generated text, not evidence that the claim is true. OpenAI researchers argue that hallucinations persist because training…
How to Document a Prompt Experiment for Other Users
A prompt experiment is only reproducible if the record captures more than the prompt text. Document the immutable prompt revision, its variable and output contract, the model…
How to Write a Prompt with Clear Success Criteria
A prompt with clear success criteria states the outcome you want, the constraints that matter, the evidence the model may use, and what the final answer must…
How to Compare Two Prompts Using the Same Test Inputs
A fair prompt comparison changes one thing: the prompt. Hold the test inputs, scoring rubric, repetitions, tool access, and model settings steady, record the full configuration, and…