Prompt thought: summaries

Our human-centered way of thinking about the writing process might not necessarily be the most logical for prompting LLMs. Let's take a brief look at summaries.

Intuitively, you'd think that a summary presupposes the existence of a piece of content that needs to be summarized. The Dutch word for summary, 'samenvatting', reflects that quite beautifully: samen (together) + vatten (grasp/contain): you bring together the key concepts of your original text. You go from large to small.

But what if you flip the paradig…