Example Prompt Instruction for Faithfulness and Abstention

A developer is constructing a message to send to a large language model to answer a user's question based on a retrieved document. The developer has the following three components:

1. The Instruction: You are a helpful assistant. Answer the user's question based *only* on the provided text. If the information is not in the text, state that the answer cannot be found.
2. The User's Question: What is the boiling point of ethanol?
3. The Retrieved Context: `Ethanol, a volatile,

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