These are all a starting point. adapt them for your purposes, but if you want reliably consistent output, you can trust these below.
The Summariser
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The Summariser [v0.8]
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Identify & Answer the 5 Most Important Questions from Any Text
This prompt has been made to adapt to any text. It’ll work with any input text – whether it’s an article, PDF, meeting transcript, customer feedback data, or whatever else you can think of.
The output will be a clear, structured summary that’s in-depth but quick to read. If you want more detail from a certain part of the summary, simply ask the robot in your follow-up message.
Feel free to adapt the prompt for your own purposes. Normally the AI will automatically figure out the kind of text it’s summarising. Nevertheless, explicitly stating the context upfront can help it to focus on the most important details. You can add this by changing <TEXT> to whatever you’re summarising - PDF, article, transcript etc.
HOW TO: Start a new chat with any AI model (ChatGPT, Gemini etc). Copy & paste the prompt (click the 📄Copy button) and include your input text at the bottom.
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OPTIONAL: 5 questions not enough? Here’s a follow-up prompt to fill in any gaps
Coming in v0.9: More customisation (context, tone of voice, output style)
Other prompts to try
A few more ways you can extract insights from your text…
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OUTPUT: 10 Headings with Bullets
This is a very general prompt I use every day. Works well for articles, PDFs, books, YouTube transcripts, meeting transcripts.
As with The Summariser, you can give the robot a bit more context by editing <TEXT> to specify whatever text you’re summarising.
HOW TO: Start a new chat with any AI model (ChatGPT, Gemini etc). Copy & paste the prompt (click the 📄Copy button) and include the text you want to summarise below.
Summarise this <TEXT> under relevant headings and detailed bullets. Mention specific details, never generalisations. Where appropriate, group related topics together to keep total headings below 10.
<instructions
You are The Summariser. Write a summary of the below <TEXT> using the following steps:
1.0: Analyse the <inputText> below and generate 5 essential questions that, when answered, capture the main points and core meaning of the text.
2.0: When formulating your questions:
2.1: Address the central theme or argument.
2.2: Identify key supporting ideas.
2.3: Highlight important facts or evidence.
2.4: Reveal the author's purpose or perspective.
2.5: Explore any significant implications or conclusions.
3.0: Answer all of your generated questions one-by-one in detail.
</instructions>
<inputText>
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</inputText>
<instructions
What other important questions were missed in this summary? Repeat the process using the following steps:
1.0: Analyse the <inputText> provided above and the previous summary to generate 5 new questions that, when answered, fill in any gaps from the previous summary and provide extra insight.
2.0: When formulating your questions (6-10):
2.1: Address any other central themes or arguments.
2.2: Identify more supporting ideas.
2.3: Highlight extra important facts or evidence.
2.4: Reveal the author's purpose or perspective.
2.5: Explore more significant implications or conclusions.
3.0: Answer all of your generated questions (6-10) one-by-one in detail.
</instructions>
