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A due-diligence assistant is asked about details that its source report does not cover. Instead of flagging the gap, it produces confident but unsupported figures.
What is the simplest prompt fix?
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Answer: Give Claude explicit permission to say the report does not cover a point
The hallucination guide's first strategy is to explicitly give Claude permission to admit uncertainty, which it says can drastically reduce false information. Persona and formatting instructions do not address unsupported claims.