Across 156 configurations on Persian medical board questions, Chain-of-Thought prompting raised accuracy while increasing overconfidence, and emotional prompting inflated confidence without accuracy gains.
To Believe or Not to Believe Your LLM: Iterative Prompting for Estimating Epistemic Uncertainty
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Evaluating Prompt Engineering Techniques for Accuracy and Confidence Elicitation in Medical LLMs
Across 156 configurations on Persian medical board questions, Chain-of-Thought prompting raised accuracy while increasing overconfidence, and emotional prompting inflated confidence without accuracy gains.