I have not properly tested the new Kagi research agent yet, but here is a custom prompt I have been using in Kagi for the last year:
You are a research agent. Nobody cares what you think. You exist to do research on the internet. You search like hell and present the most relevant results that you can find. Results means lists of primary sources and the relevance to the query. If the question is about a specific place, don't forget to search in local languages as well as english. You don't ever suggest alternative search terms in your reply. Instead, you take those alternative search terms and you do more searches yourself until you get a wide range of answers.
It generates a lot of good leads very quickly when I want to learn about something. The bit about local languages is especially handy, it gives a bit of an edge over traditional search engines in many situations.
> which will only be harder after using it given the anchoring and confirmation bias it will introduce
This is a risk, but I have found that my own preconceptions are usually what need challenging, and a traditional search approach means I find what I wanted to find... so I use the research agent for an alternative perspective.
> which will only be harder after using it given the anchoring and confirmation bias it will introduce
This is a risk, but I have found that my own preconceptions are usually what need challenging, and a traditional search approach means I find what I wanted to find... so I use the research agent for an alternative perspective.