Hey! I’m currently exploring different prompts for text editing and I’m wondering if any of you have recommendations for a prompt that can remove filler words from text without summarizing it. I’m specifically looking for a prompt that can identify and remove words such as “um”, “uh”, “like”, “you…

What you’re describing are stop words . Does it have to be done through ChatGPT, or can you use something else? Here’s an example using Python. Otherwise, your only option (off the top of my head) would be giving it a list, or even making it a plugin. [image] Removing stop words with NLT…

Here’s a working example [image]

@sps @anon10827405 – thank you! It’s a little more than just stop words though, it’s input that looks a bit more like this: “They don’t, for instance, some things, some of their online exercises don’t work when they try to open them.” I’d like to have this rewritten as “Some of their online exerci…

You can try something like this. 1. Break the text into sentences. 2. For each sentence do this: describe and experiment with what you want done. Once you're done review your work and check that the above instructions have been followed correctly. I’m not going too much into the details of what yo…

Try a one-shot or two-shot… ie give it a couple examples and it’ll do better, I bet. Good luck.

This is achievable. It required some iteration for the sentence you gave. [Screenshot] If you want to “batch”, you’ll have to append the system message at the end rather that the beginning. You’ll have to take time to refine it according to your data and desired output. Alternatively you can spe…

Thank you @sps , I’ll try that out :slight_smile:

[image] nico.moschopoulos: They don’t, for instance, some things, some of their online exercises don’t work when they try to open them. You can give this prompt a try: [image] I don’t use the “system” role (ever) but you could also try it with the system role.

Mr Sps can you please help me I do have a few questions to ask

Welcome @jhall0947 I recommend creating a separate topic on the forum.

Filler words prompt recommendations

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You can give this prompt a try:

I don’t use the “system” role (ever) but you could also try it with the system role.

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