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Developer's AI Twin Hallucinates 25% of the Time, Evaluation Harness Reveals

The author developed an evaluation harness for their personal AI digital twin, which answers questions based on their profile. The harness revealed that the AI hallucinated in 25% of test cases, despite a prompt designed to prevent such behavior. The system uses a retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) approach with a simple JSON file as a vector store, employing Amazon Bedrock's Titan v2 model for embeddings and cosine similarity for retrieval. The evaluation process separately assesses retrieval accuracy using metrics like recall@k and nDCG@k, and answer quality via an LLM judge. AI

IMPACT Highlights the challenges in ensuring factual accuracy and preventing hallucinations in RAG systems, even with specific guardrails.

RANK_REASON The item describes the creation and use of a custom evaluation tool for a personal AI application.

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Developer's AI Twin Hallucinates 25% of the Time, Evaluation Harness Reveals

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  1. dev.to — LLM tag TIER_1 English(EN) · Akash Hadagali Persetti ·

    I built an eval harness for my own AI, and it caught my digital twin lying

    <p>I run a digital twin on my personal site. It answers questions about me as if it were me: my experience, my projects, what I have and haven't worked with. The whole system prompt is one long instruction to never make anything up. If a visitor asks about a skill I don't have, i…