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by ineedausername 1086 days ago
Wait, do you just tell it "please be more concise" to whatever you ask of it?
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Not OP, but yeah if you tell it to be concise it will be. With GPT4 you can even prescribe a maximum number of sentences and probably words too (haven't tried this one specifically). It will do it. It's a great tool!
With code questions I usually say: 'code only no explanation'. It gets a bit tiresome to type every time, but gpt4 is too slow to wait for it to 'type' the explanation
Can't you seed a conversation with a prompt like that and then just ask your coding questions without retyping that every time?
100%.

I preface all prompts with "Be concise and ask follow-up questions if you need more information" -- Greatly improves the output