Hook Sentence — Ten Variations

Prompt template

Generate ten alternate opening sentences for a piece of writing about: {{topic}}

Audience: {{audience}}
Tone: {{tone}}

Rules:
- Each must be a single sentence ≤22 words.
- Each must take a different angle (story, statistic, contrarian, definition, scene, question, second-person, historical, etc.). Do not repeat angles.
- Rank from most concrete (1) to most abstract (10). The reader should feel the difference as they scroll the list.
- No 'In a world where…', no rhetorical questions about whether you've ever, no 'imagine for a moment'.

Format: numbered 1–10, no commentary.

Curator notes

The 'no In a world where' guardrail is doing real work — every model defaults to that opener at least once otherwise.