Prompt for summarize text with maximum number of characters

Prompting
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Hi,
I struggling to create a proper prompt for text summarization. The issue is I want to summarize with given number of characters, but usually I got back a longer response. And it’s important to fit into the limit.
I tried a bunch of prompt, but what worked best so far:

  • Summarize text in {numOfChar} character or less! “”“{Text}”“”

  • Summarize text in {numOfChar} character or less! Text: “”“{Text}”“” Summary:

Any help is appreciated!

2

lower the temperature and provide the number of sentences in the instruction.

For example:

Summarize the following text in `three sentences`, focusing on the topic...

Text: """
Your_content_here
"""

Only gpt-4 can produce the exact number of words and sometimes characters, the chatgpt models can mostly summarize based on a given number of sentences, but not characters.

3

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