diff --git a/surfsense_web/components/assistant-ui/thread.tsx b/surfsense_web/components/assistant-ui/thread.tsx
index dc30cfe40..9f3d45866 100644
--- a/surfsense_web/components/assistant-ui/thread.tsx
+++ b/surfsense_web/components/assistant-ui/thread.tsx
@@ -68,10 +68,10 @@ import { cn } from "@/lib/utils";
 /** Placeholder texts that cycle in new chats when input is empty */
 const CYCLING_PLACEHOLDERS = [
 	"Ask SurfSense anything or @mention docs.",
-	"Generate a podcast from marketing tips in the company handbook.",
-	"Sum up our vacation policy from Drive.",
+	"Generate a podcast from my vacation ideas in Notion.",
+	"Sum up last week's meeting notes from Drive in a bulleted list.",
 	"Give me a brief overview of the most urgent tickets in Jira and Linear.",
-	"Create a concise table of today's top ten emails and calendar events.",
+	"Briefly, what are today's top ten important emails and calendar events?",
 	"Check if this week's Slack messages reference any GitHub issues.",
 ];