Five prompts that fixed my RAG answers
Small changes that stopped my assistant from guessing, with no new tools.
My assistant sounded confident and was often wrong. Better retrieval helped, but five plain instructions helped more.
The five I keep
Answer only from the context below.
If the context does not cover it, say so.
Quote the line you used for each claim.
List what is missing before you answer.
Ask me one question if the request is unclear.
The second one matters most. An assistant that can say it does not know is one people keep using.
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