{
  "title": "Giving your AI assistant sources: what research shows",
  "url": "https://www.shr.swiss/blog/donner-des-sources-a-son-assistant-ia-ce-que-montre-la-recherche-en",
  "language": "en",
  "datePublished": "2026-08-15",
  "publisher": {
    "name": "SHR — Swiss Human Resources",
    "url": "https://www.shr.swiss",
    "address": "Esplanade de Pont-Rouge 9A, 1212 Lancy, Suisse"
  },
  "summary": "Connecting a language model to reference documents improves accuracy on factual questions — with limits.",
  "section": "Research",
  "topic": "Building AI Assistants and Agents Without Coding",
  "place": {
    "name": "Bern",
    "region": "Berne",
    "country": "CH"
  },
  "keyPoints": [
    {
      "heading": "The principle",
      "point": "Patrick Lewis and co-authors (2020, Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems) combine a language model with document retrieval: on factual question tasks, answers are more accurate.."
    },
    {
      "heading": "Breaking down reasoning",
      "point": "Jason Wei and co-authors (2022, Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems) show asking the model to spell out steps improves some reasoning tasks, mainly for large models.."
    },
    {
      "heading": "The nuance",
      "point": "These are academic benchmarks; quality depends heavily on the documents."
    },
    {
      "heading": "The limit of common practice",
      "point": "Loading every departmental file into the assistant, unsorted and undated.."
    },
    {
      "heading": "A practical check in Bern",
      "point": "Restrict the assistant to ten validated, dated documents and test twenty real questions with known answers."
    }
  ],
  "sources": [],
  "wordCount": 152,
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  "citationPolicy": "Citation autorisée avec mention « SHR — Swiss Human Resources » et lien vers l'article."
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