If you have a lot of text to sum up, it can be time consuming to extract the most important parts. If you want a simple way to keep the important stuff, you should use chain of density (CoD).
CoD prompting is a useful way to reduce the chances that ChatGPT makes mistakes when summarizing text. It works automatically with one prompt. Studies have shown that CoD summaries are preferable to normal GPT-4 summaries.
When you give it the prompt, it will:
Here's an example prompt you can use to do CoD - the only thing you need to to is paste the text you want summarized into the {{ ARTICLE }} placeholder:
"Article: {{ ARTICLE }} You will generate increasingly concise, entity-dense summaries of the above article.
Repeat the following 2 steps 5 times.
Step 1. Identify 1-3 informative entities (";" delimited) from the article which are missing from the previously generated summary. Step 2. Write a new, denser summary of identical length which covers every entity and detail from the previous summary plus the missing entities.
A missing entity is:
Guidelines:
Remember, use the exact same number of words for each summary."
Depending on how dense of a summary you want, you may want to take the outputs from step 2, 3, or 4, instead of 5.