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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.
Rewrite a Customer Support Prompt
'Be nice and fix their issue' is a liability in a support prompt. The rewrite adds the control lines support actually needs: boundaries, length, and a next step.
Overview
Weak support prompts fail dangerously rather than just blandly: a reply prompt with no boundaries will happily promise refunds, timelines, and exceptions. The rewrite treatment for support prompts is therefore control-first — exclusion rules for what must never be promised, a length cap, a defined ending — with the empathy wording kept but demoted from being the entire prompt. This resource loads the classic 'be nice and fix it' prompt and applies the control-focused rewrite.
How to use this resource
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Rewrite with Add Output Control
Exclusion, format, and length slots appear; 'try to fix quickly' gets de-hedged; the politeness filler is stripped.
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Fill the exclusion line first
What must never be promised — refund before verification, exact timelines, exceptions to policy. This is the line that pays for the rewrite.
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Keep the warmth, bounded
'Professional' became a tone line; the reply stays kind — it just stops being legally creative.
Why This Works
- Support prompts fail on promises before they fail on tone — exclusions fix the expensive failure
- A defined ending ('end with the next step') is the cheapest consistency win in support replies
- Keeping the original empathy wording preserves the team's voice while the rewrite adds the guardrails
Best for
- Support teams using AI-drafted replies
- Prompts where a wrong promise has a real cost
- Anyone whose support prompt is one sentence of vibes
Not for
- Reviewing an edit to an existing support prompt — that's the Prompt Version Diff
- Building a full policy-bounded agent prompt from fields — that's the System Prompt Generator
Use cases
- Hardening a reply prompt before agents or automations use it
- Adding never-promise rules to a friendly-but-unbounded prompt
- Standardizing reply shape across a support team
FAQ
How do I stop an AI support reply prompt from promising refunds it shouldn't?
Run the rewrite with Add Output Control, which surfaces an exclusion slot — fill it first with what must never be promised: a refund before verification, exact timelines, or exceptions to policy. That's the line that pays for the rewrite; the empathy wording stays but stops being the whole prompt. The Prompt Rewriter reshapes the text; the reply is drafted later in your assistant, and you review it.
Does hardening the support prompt strip out the friendly tone?
No loss of warmth — the rewrite keeps the original empathy wording but demotes "professional" from the entire instruction to a tone line, while adding a length cap and a defined ending that closes on the next step. The reply stays kind; it just stops being legally creative. This is a control-first reshape of one starter prompt, not building a full policy-bounded agent.
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