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A polite rewrite should not turn “no” into “maybe”: a boundary-preserving prompt

Here is a constraint to put before “make this friendlier”: “Keep the speaker's yes/no decision unchanged. Do not add availability, an apology, a reason, an offer or a future commitment that is absent from the source. If a warmer version would change the decision, leave the sentence alone and explai…

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  1. 2026-10-02 18:15 · r/PromptEngineering
    A polite rewrite should not turn “no” into “maybe”: a boundary-preserving prompt

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