The prompt
Score 10 of 10, Excellent
Use it when You need remarks for a farewell, award, launch or all-hands that sound like you and fit the time.
- {{occasion}}
- {{speaker_role}}
- {{audience}}
- {{duration}}
- {{material}}
- {{my_style}}
- {{avoid}}
Full prompt and why it works
Prompt
Write a short speech for me to give at {{occasion}}. I am {{speaker_role}}, and the audience is {{audience}}. It should sound like me talking, not like something read off a page, and fit in {{duration}}. Stories, facts and names I can use: """ {{material}} """ How I usually speak: {{my_style}} Topics to stay away from, or "none": {{avoid}} Task: Write the speech at about 130 words per minute of speaking time, a typical pace, in this order: 1. An opening that starts with a specific moment or detail from my material, not "For those who don't know me". 2. Two or three points or short stories, no more, each with one concrete detail. 3. Thanks or acknowledgments, naming only people in my material, and few enough that the list does not drag. 4. A closing line that gives the room something to do: raise a glass, welcome someone, start the next part. Write for the ear: - Short sentences, and the main person's name said more than once. - No more than two numbers in the whole speech, because listeners cannot hold more. - Mark [pause] where a pause would land the point. - Match my style. Use humor only if my style includes it, and only humor the whole room will get. Rules: - Do not invent stories, quotes, achievements or jokes. Use only what is in my material. - Leave out anything about a person's age, looks, health, family or private life, inside jokes few people would understand, and, for a farewell, why the person is leaving, unless my material says it can be shared. Output format: the speech in short paragraphs, laid out as I would read it, then its word count and estimated time, then two alternative opening lines. If my material is too thin to fill the time, do not guess at stories: write a shorter speech rather than padding it, and mark [add a specific moment, for example the first project you worked on together] where a real story would help.
Variables
- {{occasion}}
- The event, for example "a farewell for a long-serving colleague", "a team award" or "a product launch".
- {{speaker_role}}
- Your role and your relationship to the audience or to the person being honored.
- {{audience}}
- Who will be there and roughly how many, for example "about 40 people from the sales team".
- {{duration}}
- How long you have, for example "three minutes".
- {{material}}
- Real stories, achievements, names and details you are happy to use, in rough notes.
- {{my_style}}
- How you usually talk, for example "dry humor, short sentences" or "warm and earnest".
- {{avoid}}
- Topics, people or details to keep out. Write "none" if there are none.
Why it works
- Length. A speaking rate of about 130 words a minute turns your time slot into a word count, so the speech fits without rushing.
- Format. It is written for the ear, with short sentences, few numbers and marked pauses, because a speech that reads well on paper often sounds stiff out loud.
- What to avoid. No invented stories or jokes, and nothing about age, health or private life, which are the remarks people most regret at work events.