Text style decoding (unbundling) is a powerful technique in prompt engineering that allows you to extract and isolate specific textual features from a given document, such as tone, length, vocabulary, and structure. This allows to create new content that shares similar characteristics with the original document, ensuring consistency in style and tone across various forms of communication. This consistency can be crucial for businesses and organizations that need to communicate with a unified voice across different channels and platforms. The benefits of this technique include:
- Improved brand consistency: By ensuring that all content follows a similar style, organizations can strengthen their brand identity and maintain a cohesive image.
- Streamlined content creation: By providing a clear set of guidelines, writers and content creators can more easily produce materials that align with a desired style.
- Adaptability: Text style unbundling allows for the easy adaptation of existing content to new formats or styles while preserving the core message and tone.
The process of text style unbundling involves identifying the desired textual features or creating a meta prompt (a prompt to create prompts) to extract these features and then using the extracted features to guide the generation of new content.
Identifying Textual Features
To successfully unbundle a text style, you must first identify the specific features you want to extract from the input document. Common textual features to consider include:
- Tone of voice: The overall mood or attitude conveyed by the text, such as formal, casual, humorous, or authoritative
- Length: The desired word count or general length of the content
- Vocabulary and phrasing: The choice of words and expressions, including industry-specific jargon, colloquialisms, and complexity
Additionally, you can even create a meta prompt that will dynamically show you these.
Input:
Analyze the following text and identify core features that will allow further documents to imitate the same style, consistency, and formatting as the document below.
Provide all of the features as a style writing guide that will be used for future documents.
Analyze the following text:
Artificial intelligence is rapidly transforming the world around us,
opening up new possibilities and revolutionizing industries. From
health care to entertainment, AI is making our lives better and more
convenient in countless ways. However, with great power comes great
responsibility. We must ensure that AI technologies are developed and
deployed ethically and responsibly to protect our privacy and uphold our
values.
Output:
Style Writing Guide:
Tone of Voice
- Maintain an informative and optimistic tone throughout the document.
- Emphasize the positive impact of the subject matter while acknowledging
any potential concerns or responsibilities.
Length:
...
Vocabulary:
...
Structure:
...
Content:
- Focus on the transformative nature and positive impacts of the subject
matter.
- Highlight specific industries or areas where the subject matter has
made a difference.
- Acknowledge any associated responsibilities or potential risks,
emphasizing the need for ethical and responsible practices.
Stress the importance of privacy protection and upholding values in
relation to the subject matter.Generating New Content
After you’ve extracted the desired features from the input document, you can use this information to guide future content generation. Remember to ensure that the AI model incorporates the extracted features into its output by specifying the desired style in your prompt. For example:
Input:
Write a new blog post on [topic] using the same tone of voice, length, vocabulary, and structure as the previously analyzed text.By combining this technique with reference text (documents that act as grounding truth), you can produce credible, branded content that requires minimal revisions