Prompting Skills playbook/Module 4 · Documents & data

Day 33 / 100 · Documents & data · Long documents

Big doc? Give it a map.

Models can take in whole reports, but they don't read every page with equal care. Guide their attention.

Document first

Move 01

Paste or attach the document, then put your question at the end.

TRY

Source on top, ask at the bottom.

Point to sections

Move 02

Say where to look: “Sections 4–6 and Annexure B.”

TRY

Name pages, headings or clauses.

Quotes first

Move 03

Have it pull the relevant quotes, then answer only from those.

TRY

“Quote, then answer.”

Split it up

Move 04

For very long material, work section by section, then combine.

TRY

One chapter per prompt.

Source: arXiv ↗

Point it to the pages. Ask for the quotes.