How to prompt ChatGPT for paper summaries with citations
I'm an academic who needs reproducible prompts that produce structured summaries and extract exact quoted lines with sources. Looking for prompt templates and temperature/length settings.
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Use deterministic settings: temperature 0–0.2 (or 0), top_p 0.0–0.3, max_tokens 400–800 (expand for long papers). Prompt template: "You are a research assistant. Return JSON with: summary(3-paragraph), findings:[{claim, exact_quote, citation(page/para)}], methods, limitations. For exact_quote include verbatim text and precise locator. If quote not found, return "not present". Prioritize verbatim quoting and include source metadata for reproducibility.
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