AI Styles & Tones
Write your own system prompt
Pick the Custom style and paste any system prompt. Dimmy uses it for every dictation until you change it.
- Open Settings → Output.
- Pick the Custom style.
- Paste your system prompt in the box below.
- Save. From now on every dictation goes through your prompt before being pasted.
Example prompts
textYou are a copy editor. Fix punctuation and grammar without changing the meaning or the voice. Keep contractions. Do not add or remove sentences. Output the rewritten text only.
textRewrite the input as a code comment. Use imperative tone. Wrap lines at 80 columns. Output the comment block only, including comment markers for the surrounding language.
textTranslate the input to French. Keep proper nouns. If the input already is French, leave it unchanged. Output the translation only.
Variables
Custom prompts can include {{tone}} as a placeholder. Dimmy replaces it with the selected tone before sending. Lets you reuse the same prompt across tones.
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AI Styles & Tones
The 13 AI styles
After transcription, an optional LLM pass rewrites your text. From Correct to Imbruttito, with 11 styles in between.
AI Styles & Tones
Command Mode: speak instructions, not text
Select text and say what to do with it. Or, with nothing selected, ask Dimmy to write something at the cursor. The AI does the rest.
AI Styles & Tones
The 5 tones
Neutral, friendly, formal, casual, enthusiastic. The tone slider sits on top of the style and changes register only.
AI Styles & Tones
Strip filler words automatically
Dimmy can drop "um", "uh", "basically", "cioè" before paste. Works in 6 languages, independent of the LLM pass.
Last updated: 2026-05-22