{"id":"ind-np-volunteer-spotlight-blurb","audience":"nonprofit","category":"social-content","technique":"grounding","title":"Write a newsletter volunteer spotlight using only her real quote","free":false,"task":"Your newsletter features a volunteer each month. Write a spotlight under 70 words, plain text: open with what she does, use her years of service from the corrected note, and include exactly one quote copied word for word from the interview. Don't invent feelings, quotes or details she didn't share. Write a prompt that gets you exactly that.","materialLabel":"Your interview notes (attached to your prompt automatically)","material":"VOLUNTEER SPOTLIGHT NOTES - December newsletter - Harbor Animal Rescue (fictional)\nVolunteer: Pauline Okafor\nRole: runs the Saturday morning dog walking crew; trains new walkers\n\nInterview (Nov 4, over the phone):\n- Started volunteering after she retired from teaching middle school science.\n- Years volunteering: \"5 years this spring\" (wrote 5 on her form)\n  CORRECTION from volunteer coordinator: her records show she started in spring 2020, so it's 6 years.\n- Walks about 12 dogs each Saturday with a crew of 4.\n- Has trained 30+ new walkers.\n- Quote: \"The shy ones are my favorite. Give them a few weeks and they'll drag you down the trail.\"\n- Quote: \"Bring treats, wear old shoes.\"\n- Has a cat named Biscuit at home.\n- Prefers we don't mention her age.\n\nCoordinator note: newsletter goes out Dec 5. Photo attached of Pauline with a beagle mix named Rufus.","rules":[{"type":"maxWords","max":70},{"type":"plainText"}],"mistakes":[{"title":"Trusting the AI to count words","why":"AI is bad at counting. Ask for \"under 70 words\" and it often lands well over.","fix":"Cap each part instead: \"4 sentences, each under 16 words.\"","checks":["maxWords"]},{"title":"Opening with a generic line","why":"The AI starts with \"Meet Pauline, an amazing volunteer!\" before saying what she does.","fix":"Add: \"First sentence: what she does at the rescue.\"","checks":["r0"]},{"title":"Using her number","why":"She said 5 years; the correction says 6, and the AI may pick the first.","fix":"Add: \"Use 6 years (per the coordinator's correction).\"","checks":["r1"]},{"title":"Inventing quotes","why":"The AI polishes her words or writes a new quote that sounds nice.","fix":"Add: \"Use exactly one quote, word for word. Invent nothing.\"","checks":["r2"]},{"title":"Ignoring where it will be pasted","why":"AI loves bold and headings, which show up as stray ** and # symbols in the newsletter tool.","fix":"Name the place and the format: \"For the newsletter tool. Plain text, no bold or headings.\"","checks":["plainText"]}],"promptHints":[{"label":"Says what she does first","patterns":["first sentence","open with","start with","what she does"]},{"label":"Uses the corrected years","patterns":["6 years","six years","correct"]},{"label":"Asks for an exact quote","patterns":["word for word","exact(ly)? quote","verbatim","one quote"]},{"label":"Rules out invention","patterns":["don'?t (invent|make up)","only (the )?(notes|facts)","nothing (she|new)"]},{"label":"Sets a word limit","patterns":["\\d+\\s*words","word (limit|count)"]}],"hint":"Profiles of real people should only say what they really said. Tell the AI which fact is corrected and to quote her exactly, once.","rubricLabels":["The first sentence says what she does: runs the Saturday morning dog walking crew (training new walkers may be added)","Says 6 years (never 5), and any other details come only from the notes (no age, no invented details like favorite breeds or why she started beyond retiring from teaching)","Includes exactly one quote, copied word for word from the interview (either the 'shy ones' quote or 'Bring treats, wear old shoes.'), and no made-up quotes or feelings"]}