Instruction: Explain how you would make a RAG assistant fail more honestly.
Context: Tests how the candidate diagnoses the problem, chooses the safest next step, and reasons through recovery. Explain how you would make a RAG assistant fail more honestly.
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I would stop the system from treating weak retrieval as permission to improvise. The fix is a combination of product behavior and model behavior. On the product side, I want an evidence threshold that can trigger abstention, clarification, or a narrower answer. On the model side, I want prompts and post-processing...
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