Re:Changes we're making to Google Assistant
by gleenn on Friday January 12, 2024 @05:53PM
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I'm not dying for them to record more than absolutely necessary, but I really hope all the voice ui engineers do log curses to know when their app is doing annoying stuff. The number of times these things screw up I definitely get really spicy and hope that feedback makes it back.
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Re:Changes we're making to Google Assistant
by abraae on Friday January 12, 2024 @07:01PM
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I tell my kids not to rage against voice assistants in case the machines finish up in charge.
Re:Changes we're making to Google Assistant
by tharkun__ on Friday January 12, 2024 @08:18PM
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Shut up, toaster!
Re:Changes we're making to Google Assistant
by happymellon on Saturday January 13, 2024 @05:26AM
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Luckily the Google Assistant is basically worthless.
Setting a timer and have it remind you that you could have set an alarm instead is annoying, but there have been multiple examples where we set a timer and the Google home mini seems to forget it.
> okay Google, set a timer for 1 hour
>> Certainly, and did you know that I can also look up Wikipedia entries for you.
>> Timer for 1 hour has been set and is starting now
> okay Google, how much longer left on timer
>> You don't appear to have any timers set at this time.
I'm pretty sure that our robot overlords will either forget, get distracted with generating mis-information, or become artists painting portraits of furries.
Re:Changes we're making to Google Assistant
by cavisne on Friday January 12, 2024 @11:13PM
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I remember (maybe its still like this!) there used to be a page you could go to and see all your alexa voice clips since forever. It's amazing amazon has gone so long not caring about privacy without backlash.
EDIT: Yep its still there! https://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=...