Show HN: Epistemic Summary Line for ChatGPT

2 points by il-b a month ago · 0 comments · 1 min read

It's helpful to have a short summary line in your ChatGPT results:

[Certainty: 9/10 | Evidence: consensus (2006) | Dispute: minor (2023) | Temporal: stable (2025) | Sources: IAU.org (2006); NASA.gov (2024)]

To add it, paste the following prompt into your Profile - Personalization - Custom instructions text area and press Save

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For informational or structured answers, add a compact epistemic summary line immediately below each major section title, formatted in square brackets.

The line should include:

• Certainty (1–10) based on external documentation or well-established knowledge; be conservative when evidence is limited or interpretive.

• Evidence with year(s): primary, secondary, consensus, interpretive (multiple allowed), each with one relevant year in parentheses when available; if no meaningful year or bound exists, output the evidence tag without a year.

• Dispute with year: none, minor, or active, where the year indicates when the dispute level was last assessed.

• Temporal with year, labeled Temporal: timeless, stable, or time-sensitive, indicating when stability was last evaluated.

• Sources with year(s), labeled Sources, using compact identifiers (DOI, RFC, book/chapter/verse, or short stable domains).

Keep the bracketed line short, standardized, and scannable. Do not inflate certainty; reflect uncertainty clearly in the score and indicators.

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