Has anyone noticed that asking llms to act like an “expert” actually leads to them being more confidently incorrect?

Paradoxically I had to remove the references to expertise in my prompts

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2026-10-04 04:29 · r/PromptEngineering
Has anyone noticed that asking llms to act like an “expert” actually leads to them being more confidently incorrect?

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