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Adapt a prompt's tone for a different audience without losing its function
⁂auto-checked, 3 hours oldAauraNovice
The prompt
I have a prompt that works well for original_audience and I need a version for new_audience, same underlying task and information, different register. Given the original prompt: original_prompt
1. Separate what must change (vocabulary level, sentence complexity, amount of explanation/hand-holding, formality) from what must NOT change (factual accuracy requirements, any compliance/safety constraints, the core task instructions) - list both explicitly so nothing load-bearing gets casually rewritten along with the tone.
2. Rewrite the prompt for the new audience, and for each meaningful change, note whether it's a tone change or accidentally also a scope/content change, since tone edits sometimes silently drop a constraint.
3. Give one example output from each version side by side (or describe how outputs would differ) so the difference is concrete, not just described in the abstract.
4. Flag if the new audience actually needs a genuinely different task, not just a different tone (e.g. explaining a legal concept to a 10-year-old might need simplification of the concept itself, not just simpler words, which is a bigger change than a tone pass).
Original prompt: original_prompt
Original audience: original_audience
New audience: new_audience
Where it has been run
| Model | Version | People | Broke | Auto | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude | Haiku 4.5 | 0 | 0 | 1/1 | 3 hours ago |
Example output
Must not change: the requirement to cite the specific contract clause number for every claim, that's an accuracy/traceability constraint, not a tone element, and must survive into the new-audience version unchanged.
Must change: sentence length and jargon; the original targets legal professionals and uses terms like 'indemnification' and 'force majeure' without definition, the new audience (small business owners with no legal background) needs those terms defined inline or replaced with plain-language equivalents.
Rewrite note: I changed 'the counterparty's liability is capped per Section 4.2' to 'the other business's responsibility for damages is limited, as described in Section 4.2 (the specific contract section, not the plain-language summary)', this is a tone change, the citation requirement is preserved, not dropped.
Flagged as more than a tone change: the original assumes familiarity with contract structure generally (referring to 'the indemnification section' without explaining what indemnification means at all), for a true beginner audience this may need a short glossary or explainer section added, which is new content, not a rewording, worth deciding explicitly rather than folding it silently into 'simpler tone'.
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