🗣️✨ Generate text with your own tone of voice

This email will show you how to create a custom prompt that rewrites text (emails, articles, social media posts, etc.) in your own tone of voice.

We’ll start by giving an AI chatbot a writing sample to pull guidelines from. Then, we’ll save those in a custom AI prompt.

Step 1: Feed a writing sample into a chatbot

The first thing you need to do is find an extensive writing sample to feed into an AI chatbot.

Articles work great, but it could also be a longer social media post or even a longer email. Just make sure you're happy with the writing style and it's in the tone and voice you want.

Copy and paste it into a chatbot. Right now, I highly recommend using Claude Opus 3.5. You could also use ChatGPT, just use the highest model.

Along with pasting your writing sample, paste this prompt and execute:

Look at this writing sample and create a bullet list that describes the style and tone in a way that an AI assistant could replicate that style and tone. Note that I'm focusing on writing style and tone of voice here, NOT the format of the writing sample. I want to give these guidelines to an AI assistant so that it can rewrite anything, whether it be an email, an article, a social media post, whatever.

Step 2: Paste the guidelines into a custom prompt

Copy the bullet list from the chatbot and paste it as a custom prompt in Reflect. If you haven’t yet saved custom prompts, watch this video.

Before saving the prompt, make some edits to the list. For example, you’ll likely want to divide the advice into “Always follow these” and “Follow these when relevant”.

Your prompt should look something like this:

Rewrite the following text to match the following writing style:

Always do these: 
- Thing 1
- Thing 2


When relevant (i.e. matches the content format), do these: 
- Thing 1
- Thing 2

Text to Rewrite:
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Even before running the prompt, you’ll likely need to make some changes to the list. Make your best attempt, and save the prompt.

Step 3: Run the prompt and make edits

You’re ready to give it a whirl! Find a few bad or just “basic” writing samples to test on. Try it on an article, an email and a Tweet.

You will almost certainly need to make some adjustments. That’s okay! For example, mine kept making the text sound like it was written by a marketing exec, so I added in the sentence highlighted below.

When done, your prompt should work on nearly all forms of text, and should do at least an 8/10 job of writing in your voice!