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Fix a Vague Prompt
'Make it good', 'be detailed', 'keep it interesting' — vague prompts get vague output. The fix is mechanical: replace every fuzzy word with a checkable instruction.
Make a Prompt More Specific
Generic prompts produce generic output. Specificity is added in slots — audience, context, named requirements — and a rewrite shows exactly which slots yours is missing.
Overview
When output feels generic, the prompt usually lacks anchors: who it's for, what situation it serves, and what concretely must appear. Adding specificity isn't about writing more — it's about filling the right slots. This resource loads a prompt that names a topic and nothing else; the specificity-focused rewrite adds audience and context slots and converts every soft ask into a named requirement, while leaving your actual subject untouched.
How to use this resource
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Rewrite with Increase Specificity
The mode adds audience and context slots, and rewrites 'relevant' and 'valuable' into concrete instructions.
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Fill the two slots
Audience and context are one line each — they're also the two highest-leverage lines in the prompt.
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Compare before and after
The topic didn't change. What changed is that the output now has a reader and a reason.
Why This Works
- Specificity lives in slots, not word count — two filled slots beat three more paragraphs
- Audience is the single highest-leverage line in most prompts: it constrains tone, depth, and examples at once
- Soft asks become checkable when rewritten as requirements
Best for
- Prompts that name a topic but no audience or situation
- Content prompts producing interchangeable, search-result-sounding text
- Anyone unsure where their prompt needs more detail
Not for
- Extracting reusable variables from specifics — that's the Prompt Variable Builder
- Restructuring a long rambling prompt — that's the Prompt Formatter
Use cases
- Sharpening a topic-only prompt before a long generation run
- Diagnosing why output feels like it was written for nobody
- Converting soft asks ('relevant', 'valuable') into named requirements
FAQ
Does making a prompt more specific mean the tool changes my actual topic?
It does not; it leaves your subject untouched and fills slots around it. In the loaded example ("Write an article about remote work"), Increase Specificity mode adds audience and context slots and rewrites soft asks like "relevant" and "valuable" into named requirements, so the topic stays remote work; the output now has a reader and a reason. You still run the filled prompt in your own assistant.
Which added slots give the biggest improvement to a generic prompt?
Audience and context, each one line, and the rewrite calls audience the single highest-leverage line because it constrains tone, depth, and examples at once. The mode adds both as slots for you to fill; the soft-to-named conversion, turning "valuable" into a checkable requirement, does the rest. You still run the filled prompt in your own assistant.
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