Prompt Engineering for Uncertainty

Overview

Techniques to encourage AI models to admit when they don't know an answer, rather than hallucinating or confidently guessing incorrectly.

Use case: Improving reliability and trustworthiness of AI outputs.

Key steps

1. Tell the AI upfront that 'I don't know' is an acceptable answer.
2. Ask 'How confident are you, and what would you need to be sure?'
3. Watch for fake precision (made-up birthdays, statistics, citations).
4. For factual queries, accept 'I'm not certain' as a valuable response.

Details

• Category: writing
• Tool: any-llm · Quality: 5/10

Source

Extracted from: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N_rW_Ixomug