Quick fixes AG-P010
Show one example instead of three adjectives
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"Professional but warm" means something different to everyone, including the model. One example of what you want outweighs a paragraph describing it.
It can't hit the tone I mean? Here's the quick fix ↓ — the why sits right below it.
Quick fix: Show one example instead of three adjectives
Instead of Write it in a professional but warm, modern tone.
Try Match the tone of this: [paste a paragraph you like]. Same warmth, same sentence length, same level of formality.
If you have ever produced or seen the thing you want, paste it.
Why this works
Style adjectives are averaged over everyone who has ever used them, so "professional but warm" lands somewhere in the middle of a very wide field. An example is coordinates. The model is genuinely good at imitating a provided sample (tone, rhythm, structure, format) far better than it is at decoding your private meaning of "modern". This holds beyond prose: a sample row for data formats, one worked example for structured tasks, a before/after pair for edits.
When this applies
You are describing a quality of the output ("like X but Y-er") rather than its content, and an example exists somewhere in your files or memory.
Template
Here is an example of the kind of output I want: [paste]. Match its [tone / format / structure]. Content to use: [the actual material].
Go deeper
The full argument, including when examples mislead, is examples beat adjectives. When you have no example, naming the dimensions is the fallback, and one good output from this session becomes the pasted example for the next.
Improve next
- Tell it what "better" means
Tell the AI what "better" means for this text.
- Say what you actually want
Tell the AI what outcome you actually want.
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Say what you expected and what you got. That is usually the shortest route to a correction, and it goes on the public issue tracker so the fix is visible.