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AI prompts for presentations and speeches

A presentation fails more often from poor structure than from poor slides. An AI assistant is good at structure: it can turn a pile of points into an order that an audience can follow, and cut what does not belong. You bring the facts and the knowledge of your audience.

The prompts

Plan the outline

Help me plan a [LENGTH IN MINUTES] presentation.

Topic: [TOPIC]
Audience: [WHO THEY ARE AND WHAT THEY ALREADY KNOW]
What I want them to do or remember afterwards: [ONE SENTENCE]
Points I have: [LIST YOUR POINTS IN ANY ORDER]

Give me an outline with an opening, three or four sections and a close. Say how many minutes each part should take. Tell me which of my points to drop.

Replace the parts in [CAPITALS] first, or after pasting.

Slide by slide

Using this outline, suggest the slides. For each slide give a title of at most six words and at most three short bullet points. One idea per slide. No more than [NUMBER] slides. Mark the slides where a chart, picture or table would work better than text, and say what it should show.

[PASTE THE OUTLINE]

Replace the parts in [CAPITALS] first, or after pasting.

Speaker notes

Write speaker notes for the slides below, about 60 words for each, in plain spoken English that I can say naturally. The notes should add to the slide, not repeat it. Use only the facts in my slides.

[PASTE THE SLIDE TEXT]

Replace the parts in [CAPITALS] first, or after pasting.

A strong opening

Suggest five different ways to open a presentation on [TOPIC] for [AUDIENCE]: a question, a short story, a surprising comparison, a problem they recognise, and a plain statement of what they will get. Two or three sentences each. Do not invent statistics.

Replace the parts in [CAPITALS] first, or after pasting.

Questions the audience may ask

I am presenting this to [AUDIENCE]. List ten questions they are likely to ask, including the awkward ones. For each, suggest in one line what a good answer should cover. Do not write the answers for me.

[PASTE YOUR OUTLINE OR SLIDE TEXT]

Replace the parts in [CAPITALS] first, or after pasting.

Cut it down

My presentation is too long. I have [NUMBER] minutes and this content would take about twice that. Tell me what to cut, what to merge and what to keep, and explain each choice in one line. The single message I must keep is: [YOUR MAIN MESSAGE].

[PASTE THE OUTLINE]

Replace the parts in [CAPITALS] first, or after pasting.

How to adapt these prompts

Describe the audience honestly. "Class 10 students", "my company's directors" and "shopkeepers at a trade meeting" need different words, examples and length.
State the one thing. If you cannot finish the sentence "I want them to remember that...", the presentation is not ready to be outlined.
Give the time. A rough guide many speakers use is one to two minutes a slide. Tell the assistant your limit and let it do the arithmetic.
Ask for your language. For a talk in Hindi or Punjabi, ask for the speaker notes in that language and keep the slide titles short in either.
For a short speech, such as a farewell or a school function, use the outline and opening prompts and skip the slides.

Before you present

Check every fact, figure and name in the slides against your own source. An assistant asked for "an interesting statistic" may produce one that does not exist, which is why these prompts tell it not to. If you add numbers, add them yourself and note where they came from.

Then rehearse aloud with a clock. No prompt replaces that. Speaker notes that look fine on screen often turn out to be too long when spoken, and you will only find out by saying them.

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This is an independent site. It is not connected with any company that makes AI assistants. The prompts are plain text and can be used in any AI chat assistant. An AI assistant can give wrong or made-up answers: check anything important before you rely on it, and do not paste private details into a prompt.