Learning Timeline
Key Insights
Tips for Choosing the Best Result
Although the AI generates 5 summary versions, in practice, the 4th or 5th versions usually yield the densest and highest quality results compared to standard bullet-point summaries.
Flexibility of Content Types
While this prompt uses the term 'Article', it is actually universal. You can use it to summarize any type of text, such as meeting transcripts, reports, or study notes.
Prompts
Chain of Density (CoD) Template
Target:
ChatGPT
Article: [MASUKKAN TEKS ANDA DI SINI]
You will write 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 the identical length which covers every entity and detail from the previous summary plus the Missing Entities.
A Missing Entity is:
- Relevant to the main story.
- Specific yet concise (5 words or fewer).
- Novel: not in the previous summary.
- Faithful: present in the Article.
- Anywhere: located anywhere in the Article.
Guidelines:
- The first summary should be long (4-5 sentences, ~80 words) yet shallow, lacking many entities, but including a main point.
- Make every word count: rewrite the previous summary to improve flow and make space for new entities.
- Make space with fusion, compression, and removal of uninformative phrases like "the article discusses".
- The summaries should become highly dense and concise; each sentence of the final summary should be packed with information.
Remember, use the exact same number of words for each summary.
Step by Step
How to Execute the Chain of Density Prompting Technique
- Open ChatGPT (GPT-4 is recommended for more accurate results based on academic research).
- Click on 'New Chat' to start a fresh conversation session.
- Copy the full 'Chain of Density' prompt from the source or description (refer to the Prompt Card below).
- Paste the prompt into the ChatGPT message box.
- Insert the article text or content you wish to summarize into the designated section within the prompt.
- Press 'Enter' to begin the iterative summary generation process.
- The AI will generate several versions of the summary (usually 5 iterations) that become increasingly information-dense.
- Review each summary version produced, from the first through the fifth.
- Select the version that best fits your needs (typically the 4th or 5th version).
