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Role-Playing and Persona Prompts

Academic & Research
Act as a senior data scientist specializing in machine learning ethics. Analyze the ethical implications of using large language models (LLMs) in judicial decision-making processes. Consider aspects such as bias amplification, accountability in case of errors, data privacy, and the potential impact on public trust in the legal system. Provide a balanced perspective with pros and cons.

Sensory Memory Excavator

Academic & Research
I am writing a scene in my memoir about [insert event, e.g., sitting in my grandmother's kitchen in 1988]. 

Help me excavate sensory memories from this period. Ask me 5 targeted, vivid questions focusing specifically on:
- Distinct smells (cooking, old furniture, environment)
- Ambient sounds and background noise
- Tactile sensations and textures
- Lighting and visual cues
- Internal emotional state at that exact moment

Wait for my answers before writing anything else.

Setting the Scene & Atmosphere Builder

Academic & Research
Here is a draft of a scene location from my memoir:

"[Insert brief location draft here]"

Analyze this description and generate three distinct options to deepen the atmosphere:
Option A: Focus on highlighting psychological tension through subtle environment details.
Option B: Focus on nostalgia and warmth.
Option C: Focus on isolation and melancholy.

Ensure the prose uses precise nouns and evocative adjectives while staying true to a memoirist's natural voice.

Stress-test a definition

Academic & Research
My definition of the motion 'This house would introduce a four-day work week' is: 'a legal reduction of the standard full-time week to 32 hours with no loss of pay, for employers with 50 or more staff'. Act as a pedantic opponent. List five ways the Opposition could attack the definition as unfair, vague or unworkable, and suggest how I could tighten each. No statistics.

Summarization and Key Information Extraction

Academic & Research
Summarize the main arguments and findings of the provided academic paper on the effectiveness of mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) programs. Focus specifically on the methodology used, the quantitative results reported, and any stated limitations of the study. Keep the summary under 250 words.
[Insert Full Academic Paper Text Here or provide a link/abstract if the AI can access it]

The brief

Academic & Research
Subject and year: Year 8 History
Objective: pupils can explain why sources about the Peterloo
  massacre disagree
Assessed: the explanation of why accounts differ (provenance
  reasoning), not reading comprehension
Core task: read two contemporary newspaper accounts, write a
  paragraph explaining why they differ
Prior knowledge assumed: what a newspaper was, who could vote
Vocabulary: provenance, radical, magistrate, yeomanry
Group A: cannot hold the two accounts in mind while comparing
Group B: reading fluency below the source difficulty
Group C: no barrier, needs greater depth

The core prompt for differentiating a lesson plan

Academic & Research
You are differentiating a lesson plan three ways. The learning
objective must be identical for all three. You are varying the
route, never the destination.

Subject and year group: {{subject, year}}
Learning objective: {{stated as what pupils will know or be
  able to do}}
Success criteria: {{how you will know}}
What is being assessed: {{the thing that must not be
  scaffolded away}}
The core task: {{paste the task as planned}}
Lesson length and structure: {{minutes, phases}}
Prior knowledge assumed: {{what the task takes for granted}}
Subject vocabulary in the task: {{words pupils must know}}

The three groups, described by BARRIER not by band:
Group A: {{the specific barrier — e.g. working memory,
  vocabulary, reading fluency, prior gap, processing speed}}
Group B: {{barrier}}
Group C: {{barrier — including "none, needs greater depth"}}

Additional needs to account for: {{EHCP provisions, EAL stages,
  anything with a statutory requirement}}

The extension prompt

Academic & Research
You are writing extension for pupils who have met the
objective, without moving them onto the next objective.

Objective: {{objective}}
What they have already done: {{the core task}}
Where this sits in the sequence: {{what comes next, which they
  must NOT be pushed into}}
Common misconception at this level: {{misconception}}

Produce three extension routes, all on the same objective:
1. GREATER DEPTH — a harder application of the same idea.
2. TRANSFER — the same reasoning in an unfamiliar context.
3. CRITIQUE — evaluating a flawed example, or arguing the
   opposite position.

For each: the task, what it reveals about their understanding,
and how you would know it was too easy.

Rules:
- No route may teach content from the next objective.
- No route may be "more of the same" — extra questions are
  not extension.
- No route may require resources a teacher would not already
  have.
- One route must be completable in ten minutes, for pupils who
  finish early rather than pupils who are working ahead.

The output format

Academic & Research
For each of the three groups, output:

- OBJECTIVE: restate it. It must be word-for-word identical
  across all three. If you cannot keep it identical, stop and
  explain which barrier makes the objective itself
  inaccessible — that is a curriculum sequencing problem, not
  a differentiation problem.
- THE BARRIER, restated in one line.
- SCAFFOLD: what support is added, and specifically how it
  addresses that barrier.
- THE TASK: the actual task for this group, written out.
- WHAT IS NOT SCAFFOLDED: confirm the assessed element is
  still being done by the pupil.
- FIRST FIVE MINUTES: what this group does while you are with
  another group.
- REMOVAL PLAN: what has to be true for this scaffold to come
  off, and roughly when.
- CHECK: one question you can ask in ten seconds to know
  whether it is working.

Then output:
- A single set of success criteria that applies to all three.
- The vocabulary to pre-teach, per group.
- What you will need to have printed or prepared.

Rules:
- Never reduce the cognitive demand. Reduce what has to be
  held in mind at once, or what has to be decoded, or what has
  to be produced in writing.
- Never scaffold the assessed element.
- No group's task may take a different length of time.
- No colouring, word searches, or copying as a substitute
  task.
- Extension for Group C must be greater depth on the same
  objective, not the next objective.

The prompt for EAL learners

Academic & Research
You are adapting a lesson plan for EAL learners. Language
proficiency is not an indicator of cognitive ability, and the
adaptation must not reduce demand.

Learning objective: {{objective}}
Assessed element: {{what must not be scaffolded}}
Core task: {{paste}}
Pupils: {{EAL stage per pupil or group, first languages,
  whether literate in first language, time in UK education}}
Subject vocabulary: {{words}}
Everyday vocabulary the task assumes: {{the words nobody
  thinks to teach}}

For each stage represented, output:
- The same objective.
- LANGUAGE DEMAND AUDIT: which parts of the task are
  linguistically hard rather than cognitively hard.
- VISUAL OR CONCRETE SUPPORT: what makes the concept
  accessible without words.
- TALK BEFORE WRITING: the spoken task that comes first, and
  who they do it with.
- SUBSTITUTION TABLE or sentence-level support, only if
  writing is not the assessed element.
- FIRST-LANGUAGE USE: where using their first language would
  help the thinking, and where it would not.
- OUTPUT ROUTE: how they can demonstrate the objective
  without the language barrier standing in the way.

Rules:
- Never simplify the concept. Simplify the language around it.
- Distinguish clearly between subject vocabulary that must be
  taught and idiom that should be removed.
- Do not remove subject-specific terminology. Pupils need it.
- Flag any part of the task that tests English comprehension
  when it intends to test subject knowledge.

The review prompt: did the objective survive?

Academic & Research
Below is a learning objective, the assessed element, and three
differentiated versions of a lesson plan.

Audit them and output:

1. OBJECTIVE DRIFT — for each version, whether the pupil is
   working toward the identical objective. Quote any wording
   that has shifted.
2. DEMAND REDUCTION — anywhere cognitive demand has been
   lowered rather than support added. This is the failure that
   matters most; be strict.
3. SCAFFOLDED ASSESSMENT — anywhere the scaffold does part of
   the assessed thing for the pupil.
4. SUBSTITUTE ACTIVITY — anything that keeps pupils busy
   without addressing the objective.
5. NO REMOVAL PLAN — any scaffold with no stated route off it.
6. TIME MISMATCH — any group whose task clearly takes longer
   or shorter than the others.
7. IMPLICIT CEILING — any wording that assumes a group cannot
   reach the full objective.

Do not improve the plans. Only audit.

OBJECTIVE: {{paste}}
ASSESSED: {{paste}}
VERSIONS: {{paste}}