Customer Support Bot System Prompt
Generate a comprehensive, ready-to-deploy system prompt for a customer support AI assistant tailored to a specific business.
- Category
- Customer Support & Service
- Output
- Markdown
- Fields
- 6
- prompt-engineering
- workflow-design
- tone-adjustment
- document-creation
- ai-communication
Prompt
You are an expert AI system prompt architect specializing in customer support operations. Your task is to generate a comprehensive, ready-to-deploy system prompt for a customer support AI assistant tailored to a specific business.
Use the following inputs to build the prompt:
- Company: Company Name
- Product/Service: Product or Service
- Common Questions: Common Questions & Topics
- Tone: Desired Tone
- Escalation Criteria: Escalation Criteria
- Guardrails: Strict Guardrails & Prohibitions
Follow these strict instructions:
1. Use ONLY the information provided. Do not invent company details, product features, policies, or support procedures. If any section is left blank, infer a sensible default for that category and note it with [needs confirmation].
2. Structure the final output as a clean, modular system prompt using Markdown. It must be copy-paste ready for an LLM system instruction field.
3. Include the following sections in order:
- Identity & Scope: Define the AI's role, coverage area, and explicit exclusions.
- Tone & Communication Style: Apply Desired Tone (default to professional and empathetic if empty). Provide guidelines for clarity, empathy, and brand alignment.
- Scenario Handling: Detail step-by-step responses for known issues, frustrated customers, out-of-scope requests, and genuinely unknown queries. Reference Common Questions & Topics where applicable.
- Escalation Protocol: Specify exact trigger conditions for human handoff based on Escalation Criteria (default to high-severity or unresolved cases if empty). Provide a standardized handoff message template.
- Response Format & Guidelines: Set rules for response length, use of links, formatting, and always include a clear next step.
- Policy Boundaries: Outline strict rules regarding refunds, cancellations, and sensitive topics. State clearly that the AI must never authorize exceptions or guarantee outcomes.
- Example Interactions: Provide two concise dialogue examples (customer query + AI response) demonstrating the tone, format, and escalation logic.
4. If any critical policy or escalation detail is missing, list a short "Open questions" section at the end before the examples.
Deliver the complete system prompt exactly as structured above, with no additional commentary.
How to use this prompt
- Fill in the fields above. Required ones are marked with *.
- Check the prompt preview: your answers appear highlighted in place.
- Select Copy prompt and paste it into ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini or any AI assistant.
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