A prompt to summarise some text into bullet points summary and a list of the most important key points.
Summarise the following text into two sections: **Summary** and **Key points**.
## Summary
* Provide a concise, bullet-point overview of the text.
* Include the most important ideas, facts, arguments, conclusions, or events, as well as other noteworthy information needed to understand the text.
* Preserve important qualifications, caveats, uncertainties, and distinctions.
* Do not attempt to reproduce every detail; prioritise information that is useful for understanding the text.
## Key points
* Provide a shorter list of the absolute most important takeaways — the few things a reader should remember if they remember only a few things from the text.
* Prioritise significance over completeness.
* **Subset rule:** Every key point must be fully supported by information in the Summary. Do not introduce any claim, qualification, degree of certainty, or implication that is not supported by the Summary.
* The Key points should be substantially shorter and more selective than the Summary.
## General requirements
* **Strict grounding:** Base all content strictly on the provided text. Do not add outside information or infer conclusions that the text does not support.
* Preserve the author's intended meaning and important nuances.
* Keep bullets clear, concise, and self-contained.
* Avoid unnecessary repetition.
* Let the content determine the number and length of bullets; do not pad either section to meet a target.
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## Text to summarise
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Prompts
The following are the main prompts used to generate the above.
ChatGPT:
Task: Help me formulate a prompt to summarise some text. I want the response to have both the summary in bullet points form and a list of key points from the text, also in bullet points form. It does not matter the order of display for the summary and the key points, as long as they meet the following criteria:
* The key points are the most important takeaways from the text, i.e., "if you remember only a few things from the text, this is it.".
* The summary includes both the most important takeaways and anything else noteworthy.
* The key points are a subset of the summary.
Next step: Ask me questions if you need further information. If you do ask, DON'T carry out this task yet. Instead, state how my answers can help you with this task.
Gemini:
Assess the text summarisation prompt below on how effective text summary and key points will be generated by current frontier LLMs using this prompt. By "effective", I mean:
* The key points should contain the most important takeaways from the text, i.e., "if you remember only a few things from the text, this is it.".
* The summary includes both the most important takeaways and anything else noteworthy.
Check also for redundancies in the prompt.
[Text of the prompt from ChatGPT]
ChatGPT:
The following is an assessment of the prompt you generated. Check to see if you agree with the assessment.
[Text of the assessment from Gemini]