The most common complaint about AI writing is that it does not sound like the person using it. These seven commands fix that. They protect your voice, adjust your tone, and turn flat AI output into writing your audience would recognize as yours.
AI writing fails when it sounds like AI writing. Generic. Polished in the wrong way. Missing the specific rhythm, word choices, and perspective that make your audience trust you and keep reading. The problem is not the technology. The problem is that most people do not know how to direct it.
These seven commands are the ones that close that gap. They do not replace your thinking or your point of view. They take what you already know and express it in a way that is clear, specific, and unmistakably yours.
Every founder who creates content, writes emails, runs social channels, or communicates with clients needs at least one of these. Most need all seven.
The fastest fix for AI copy that does not sound like you is to run it through /voice with samples of your actual writing. The model reads your rhythm, your word choices, your sentence length patterns, and rewrites the output to match. The result is faster than writing from scratch and sounds nothing like generic AI copy.
Best used any time you have AI-generated content that is accurate but flat, or content written by a team member that needs to be edited to sound like you.
/voice — Rewrite this in my exact voice, tone, and style. Here are three examples of my writing: [paste examples]. Now rewrite this: [paste content]. Match my rhythm, my vocabulary, and the way I structure sentences. Do not make it more formal or more polished than the originals.
ELI5 stands for "explain it like I'm five." It is the standard prompt shorthand for simplifying something without dumbing it down. The best educators and marketers are the ones who can take something complicated and make it feel obvious. This command does that work instantly.
Best used when explaining a concept your audience finds intimidating, simplifying a technical topic for a non-technical audience, or making a nuanced idea land in a single paragraph.
/eli5 — Explain this topic as if I'm five years old. Remove all jargon. Use simple words, short sentences, and a concrete example a child could picture. The topic is: [paste topic or draft]. The goal is for my audience to finish reading and think "oh, I actually get that now."
The same message written at different tones lands completely differently. A casual, direct email hits differently than a polished, warm one. Neither is better. What matters is whether the tone matches the audience, the platform, and the moment. /tone gives you the ability to shift that dial precisely.
Best used when adapting the same content for different channels, writing to a new audience segment, or when feedback tells you that something felt "off" in tone without being able to say exactly why.
/tone — Rewrite this with a [choose: warmer / more direct / more conversational / more authoritative / lighter / more urgent] tone. Keep the core message and all key information exactly the same. Only change how it feels to read it, not what it says. Here is the content: [paste content].
Stories move people. Data informs them. If you want your audience to remember what you said and act on it, the message needs a story wrapped around it. /story takes a point you want to make and builds a short narrative structure around it — setup, tension, resolution — that makes the lesson land and stay.
Best used for Instagram or TikTok content, email newsletters, sales page testimonials or case studies, and anywhere your message needs to connect emotionally before it convinces logically.
/story — Turn this idea or lesson into a short story. Give it a clear setup, a moment of tension or conflict, and a resolution where the lesson lands. Keep it under 200 words. Make it feel personal and specific, not like a generic fable. The lesson is: [paste your message or idea].
The right metaphor does in one sentence what three paragraphs cannot. When you are trying to explain something abstract — a business concept, a system, a feeling — a concrete comparison pulls the reader in and makes the idea memorable. /metaphor finds that comparison for you.
Best used when teaching a complex topic to a new audience, building a central metaphor for a brand or offer, or writing a hook built around an unexpected comparison that makes people stop.
/metaphor — Give me five metaphors for this concept. Each should come from a different domain: nature, sports, architecture, cooking, or everyday objects. The metaphor should make the concept immediately understandable to someone who has never heard of it. The concept is: [describe it].
Every long-form piece has two or three sentences that could stand alone and stop a scroll. Finding them by hand takes longer than it should. /quote reads your content and pulls out the lines that are quote-worthy: punchy, specific, self-contained, and designed to travel.
Best used when repurposing a blog post, email, or interview into social content, or when you need a visual text post pulled from something you already wrote.
/quote — Read this content and pull out five shareable pullquotes. Each one should be self-contained (make sense without the rest of the piece), punchy (under 30 words), and specific enough to start a conversation or earn a save. Here is the content: [paste your piece].
When you have been creating content for a while, it starts to feel like you have already said everything. You have not. You have just said it from one angle. /reframe takes a topic you know well and finds five completely different entry points into it — each one a new hook, a new audience, or a new argument.
Best used when planning a content calendar and feeling stuck, when a past piece did not perform and you want to try the same topic differently, or when you know your audience is not engaging with a topic they should care about.
/reframe — Give me five completely different angles on this topic. Each angle should feel like a different article, targeting a slightly different reader, or entering the conversation from a different emotional starting point. Do not repeat the same argument with different words. The topic is: [your topic].
Seven commands that handle the most frustrating part of writing with AI: keeping it sounding like you. Protecting your voice, adjusting your tone, finding the right story, building the right metaphor, pulling the line worth sharing, and finding a new angle when the old ones feel stale.
If you want a full content system built around your voice, your audience, and your business, the Content Engine™ at Her AI Systems™ is built for exactly that.
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