I need to make sure my Pickaxe doesn't make stuff up

What you are pointing to are commonly called “Hallucinations”. There are several ways to combat hallucinations. While they are effective, they are not 100% full-proof, so be sure to always check your Pickaxe in the control panel and see that is answering well.

  1. In your prompt, tell it to double check answers for accuracy. While silly, this actually helps.
  2. Specifically instruct your Pickaxe to not make up answers. Include in your prompt, some text like: “If you don’t know the answer to this question, DO NOT MAKE UP an answer. Instead admit that you don’t know.”
  3. If you’ve provided your pickaxe with documents in the form of a knowledge base, go under “advanced settings”. Here you can include some specific language about how the AI should only draw from the information in your knowledge base. (see picture)

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