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.
Workflow
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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