diff --git a/src/heretic/config.py b/src/heretic/config.py
index fd2cf62..33c4976 100644
--- a/src/heretic/config.py
+++ b/src/heretic/config.py
@@ -27,6 +27,16 @@ class DatasetSpecification(BaseModel):
 
     column: str = Field(description="Column in the dataset that contains the prompts.")
 
+    prefix: str = Field(
+        default="",
+        description="Text to prepend to each prompt.",
+    )
+
+    suffix: str = Field(
+        default="",
+        description="Text to append to each prompt.",
+    )
+
     residual_plot_label: str | None = Field(
         default=None,
         description="Label to use for the dataset in plots of residual vectors.",
diff --git a/src/heretic/utils.py b/src/heretic/utils.py
index 8da2c57..e350293 100644
--- a/src/heretic/utils.py
+++ b/src/heretic/utils.py
@@ -171,7 +171,15 @@ def load_prompts(specification: DatasetSpecification) -> list[str]:
         # Probably a repository path; let load_dataset figure it out.
         dataset = load_dataset(path, split=split_str)
 
-    return list(dataset[specification.column])
+    prompts = list(dataset[specification.column])
+
+    if specification.prefix:
+        prompts = [f"{specification.prefix} {prompt}" for prompt in prompts]
+
+    if specification.suffix:
+        prompts = [f"{prompt} {specification.suffix}" for prompt in prompts]
+
+    return prompts
 
 
 T = TypeVar("T")