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A present for someone you actually know
Tell it what they're really like. Get ideas that aren't a gift guide for their demographic.
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Updates as you typeI need a present for my sister, 34, we're close and she'll tell me if she hates it. What they're actually like: she's been learning to bake sourdough and complains her kitchen is too cold for proofing, drinks a lot of tea, hates clutter, wears the same two jumpers all winter, just moved into a flat with no garden Budget: around 50 Occasion: birthday in three weeks, has to be posted Give me six ideas. For each one: - What it is, and roughly what it costs - The line in what I told you that made you think of it. Quote it back to me. - Why it might miss Rules. Every idea has to come from something specific I said about this person. If an idea would work just as well for any woman in her thirties, don't include it. No gift sets, no experience vouchers unless I mentioned something that points at one. Then two extras: the safest one on the list, and the one that's a risk but would land properly if it worked. If what I've told you is too thin to do this well, don't guess. Ask me two questions about them first.
What you get: Six ideas, each tied to something you actually said about them, with the safe pick and the risky one called out.
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Make it quote you back
That's the instruction that kills the gift guide. Asking it to name the line that prompted each idea means it can't fall back on scented candles, because nothing you wrote points at one.
The permission to ask questions instead of guessing matters too. If you gave it three vague words, you want it to say so rather than invent a personality.
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