Hi guys,
Anyone have already thought about the dilemma of “asking” AI to be concise in a way too wordy prompt?
It’s been quite a time I’m thinking about this: how to force AI to stay concise and straight to the point in its answers.
So far, the only way I found was to be straight to the point and concise in the prompts. Always found it funny to spend 100 words asking someone be short.
Good knowledge of what LLM is good at and what are it’s weak points, helps structure your solutions through a set of short instructions that have been clearly defined in shorter prompts, and set the tone to the model to answer in a similar (shorter manner). Then if you add something like:
Important :
- Please stay concise and straight to the point in your answers without omitting important details.
- other final instructions go here...
at the end, the model will pretty much do exactly what’s needed.
When you can’t break the whole thing down to small tasks (why?), you can add another model that can convert long answers to whatever size you need. This type of post-processing plays especially well when fine-tuned (because the task on this step is really simple: rewrite to the desired size and precision).
Hope that helps.