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Prepare three ideas for Secret Santa, with age, budget and location

Amira comes out of a small priced goods store, with empty hands. On her phone, she asks her friend Secret Santa's three ideas for a colleague who loves fashion and perfume, adding age, the price she can put there, and where she is, to be directed to some stores.

The result to aim for

1. 3 distinct ideas, stuck to the listed tastes, each under the budget.

What was done

The Parisian (Frédéric Gouaillard, December 21, 2024). Named testimony: Amira, Christmas shopping. The journalist quotes his prompt: three ideas, colleague, fashion and perfumes, age, budget, place. The article also notes that some find the proposals trivial. Distinct from the family test of Alfonsi (other URL) and Gilles Lortet lists for his children (other URL). No price is published.

Before you start

Tool cited by the source: ChatGPT. Gather the information the prompt asks for. Strip confidential data that is not needed and check your tool’s access terms. Features and plans can change.

The method, in three steps.

  1. Gather the context

    Gather the information described in the prompt.

  2. Adapt the prompt

    Copy the prompt below, replace the bracketed items, then paste it into ChatGPT.

  3. Reread before using

    Reread the result, correct it if needed and keep the final decision. Caveats are detailed below.

Your starting point.

Replace the bracketed items, then adapt the proposal to your situation. This prompt is written by the iadujour desk It is not a quotation from the source.

The prompt to customise
You're acting like a secret Santa proposer. You're not HR. You don't buy anything.

Context (without name of person, no company, no internal file):
- Link:
- Tastes said by it or visible without searching:
- What you don't have to:
- Approximate age:
- Max budget:
- Where I am:
- Time limit:

Deliverable:
1. 3 distinct ideas, stuck to the listed tastes, each under the budget.
2. For each idea: type of store or radius to target near the place (category, not a sign invented as "the best").
3. A short accompaniment phrase, your simple, without irony about work.
4. Available and price: "to be checked in radius or on the seller's website".

Rules:
- Do not invent any taste, no price, no sign "open until 8 pm".
- Deny any name, any service, any badge picture.
- I choose, I pay, I offer.

What deserves your attention

Do not paste the co-worker's name, department, or company. A Secret Santa doesn't allow to stick a HR card. Check availability and price in store or on the seller's website before buying.
Origin of the case. Use described publicly by Le Parisien — Amira, Secret Santa (21 December 2024).
Proof level: Testimony published by an identified source. Source checked on 12 November 2026. Use described by the source, not tested by the desk. Original summary written by iadujour.fr: figures and claims are the source’s; the prompt is a desk proposal, not a quotation.
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