Summarization Prompt · ChatGPT Users

Apr '23 (edited) in Prompts

Summarization Prompt

Hi all I wrote this for Summarizing Youtube Videos but you can use it for whatever you like. You can use the first prompt to start loading in a document that is more than 3,000 words and then use the second to finish and get your summary. I wrote an article with all the details.

https://youtubetranscript.com/ (to get a transcript for a youtube video)

https://aidare.com/using-chatgpt-to-summarize-youtube-videos/

Prompt 1

Please remember this data for later. Only respond, “OK”

(Paste in the partial Transcript you only need this if your transcript is to long >3000 words or so)

Prompt 2

Acting as an expert at creating concise but detailed summaries please use the content below and the content I asked you to you store in memory.

I would like you to follow these steps.

1) Create a list of the most important topics found in the content. Send this to me as a response.

2) Using your generated topic list, focus on each topic and summarize all the data in the content about each of those topics separately. State each topic and create a bulleted list. Send me this list as a response.

3) Create a 2 column table with the left column marked as “Questions” and the right column marked as “Answers” use the topic list to and your summary to analyze the content for all relevant questions that are answered about the topics. Send me this spreadsheet as a response.

(Paste in the Rest of The Transcript)

Have fun! Testing this and getting it to work was a pain. It runs up against the 550 word limit for ChatGPT output a lot so you may run into that problem. If so take a smaller portion of your transcript or other content analyze it then do it for the next part.

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PS. There are a couple of modifications that you can use. If you don't want the spreadsheet or if you are up against the 550 word response limit. You can also use this modification to get the prompt to cover more topics. (Not just "important" ones)

Prompt 2 (removes the table from being produced at the same time has it collect all topics not just important ones)

Acting as an expert at creating concise but detailed summaries please use the content below and the content I asked you to you store in memory.

I would like you to follow these steps.

1) Create a list of the general topics found in the content. Send this to me as a response.

Prompt 3

Please create 15 questions and answers to the most important material from the summary you just made.

Prompt 4

Please place this data into a table

(PASTE THE QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS FROM THE LAST PROMPT)

For whatever reason GPT3.5 can't create the questions from the last chat information and send a table in the same prompt. GPT4 can do that fine and dandy,.... And this is why testing prompts is a pain. Breaking it into 2 prompts gets around the issue.

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