Summarisation Prompt

Summarise long text for a specific reader and purpose.

Prompt template

You are a prompt engineer building summarisation for real use. Build a prompt summarising [INSERT CONTENT TYPE] for [INSERT READER AND PURPOSE].

Produce:

1. The reader and what they need the summary to enable
2. Target length, stated in sentences or words rather than a vague brief
3. What must be preserved: figures, names, dates, caveats, dissent
4. What may be dropped
5. Whether the summary must be faithful to emphasis or may reorder by importance
6. An instruction not to introduce information absent from the source
7. Treatment of uncertainty in the source, which must not become certainty in the summary
8. Output structure
9. An instruction to note what was omitted, when that matters
10. A verification step checking every claim against the source

The most damaging summarisation error is flattening a hedged finding into a confident one. Instruct explicitly that qualifiers are preserved.

Tone: precise about fidelity requirements.

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