title: OpenAI - Limit TL/DR Summarization to X characters & complete sentences
body: <p>I'm currently learning how to use OpenAI API for text summarization for a project.  Overall, it's pretty amazing but there is one thing I'm struggling with.</p>
  <p>I need a tl/dr summary that is 1 - 2 complete sentences with max of 250 characters.  I can play around with the MaximumLength option but if I make it too short, the summary often just ends up with a sentence that is just cut off in the middle.</p>
  <p>Another problem is - if there is a bullet list in the main text, the summary will be a few of those bullets.  Again, I need 1-2 complete sentences, not bullets.</p>
  <p>Lastly, if the main text is quite short, often my summary will be 2 sentences that say the exact same thing with a slight variation.</p>
  <p>I've tried this using the various engines (text-davinci, davinci-instruct-beta).  Any suggestions on how I can instruct/guide OpenAI to give me the output that I'm looking for?  Or, do I need to start doing the &quot;Fine Tuning&quot; option.  If I feed it 1,000+ examples of 1-2 sentences with &lt; 250 characters &amp; no bullets, will it understand what I need?</p>
  <p>Many thanks in advance.</p>