I’ve added to my system prompt in perplexity “ignore unreliable sources” and “make sure claims are supported by multiple sources” and that seems to help.

Of course for anything of consequence I’d go and actually read the sources (but for plenty of every day stuff it’s fine). On the free plan btw

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OtomotO 2 hours ago | parent [-]

> I’ve added to my system prompt in perplexity “ignore unreliable sources”

Ah, the good old magic trick!

	▲	jedbrooke an hour ago \| parent [-]
		It works surprisingly well sometimes (: LLMs are really weird sometimes. I had some issues using a coding harness where the agent was failing to use the correct tool call syntax (I was using some rando free model on OpenRouter). I sent a message “look closelier at the tool call format” then all the tool calls for the rest of the session succeeded.