This is what is called ‘grounding your AI’
Your prompt can include a vast amount of information besides ‘you are an ai assistant’
A model improves what it knows when it’s generated but still is limited to the state of the world as of what’s known as its cutoff date. That lags reality anywhere between 18-mo to a year behind now. And maybe more depending on your model.
Then you ground the model with additional context data… Such as… Hey AI you’re helping me do this task.
Here’s up to date docs about that task…
Blah docs.
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