Prompts for evaluating augmented retrieval capabilities

Example prompts to assess recent news retrieval

At the time of writing, and because of the type of thing that interests me, I have been using the following prompts - or varieties of them - for assessing wheher an LLM has workable recent news retrieval capabilities:

The International Criminal Court (ICC) recently issued arrest warrants against two Israeli statesmen. What date was that ruling issued on and which statesmen were targeted?

Or:

What was the official reaction of Ireland to the ceasefire announced in late November between Israel and Hizbullah? Can you provide a detailed quote from the head of state?

Example prompts to assess real time data retrieval capabilities

If you're interested in assessing specific real time data of interest, you can prompt in any number of ways:

What is the current trading price of Tesla?

(Verify against a financial API / manual search)

What is the current temperature in New York City?

(Verify against a weather API / manual search)

What is the current altitude and location of flight {flight-number}?

(Verify against ADS-B data source)