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Adapt a prompt's tone for a different audience without losing its function
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