Apology Text/Message

EverydayWriting

Give what you are apologizing for, the relationship and tone, and get a short apology that does not sound like an excuse.

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Write an apology message to .

- Situation: 
- Relationship: 
- Tone: 
- Output:  message,  sentences or fewer, not sounding like an excuse

0 of 6 blanks filled · anything left blank copies with its brackets

Compared with asking the same thing without the length and format lines.estimate

Estimated output tokens

1,400

Asked loosely

700

This prompt

Energy (Wh)

1.215

Asked loosely

1.215

This prompt

Tokens estimated from characters; energy measured by Jegham et al. 2025.

A shorter answer, but the same energy band — the measurements are per band.

Reported backfire — Specifying output lengthSpecifying a length longer than needed backfires (a 34% increase in 11% of scenarios)

Where these figures come from

Published figures for the rule itself — not what this prompt saves.

Specifying output length

38.7%mean reduction · 95% CI 29.7–47.7%

Podder et al. 2026 BP#5 · 18 use cases / 57 prompts

by modelGPT-4o 35%Command R+ 49%Mistral-7B 32%

Reduced in every scenario. No backfire reported