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by jsnell 1136 days ago
The construction of the summarizing task is a bit odd. The prompt asks for a single sentence of output, but then the author complains that the Bard output is too terse. If I'm asking for a single sentence, that's about the amount of text I'd expect, not a paragraph of text mushed into a run-on sentence.

Especially if the problem is something as easily fixable as the wrong level of detail, I would have thought that exploring some alternative prompts would make sense. Given this is the prompt that the author is already using for a ChatGPT-based app, it's obvious that this specific prompt would work well there. If it didn't, they would have iterated on the prompt until it produced acceptable results for their app.