Hacker News Reader

Picard had to remind Computer that he likes drinking his tea "hot" 15 times a day -- all signs point to voice assistants forcing us to be hyper literal because they like to mess with us.

Holy shit, that first one is so annoying. I don't understand how even the shoddiest of voice assistants on the market get it right but Alexa doesn't.

Wow, how hard is it to say 7am?

This is new tech, I think your expectations are a little too high. Remember windows 3?

The thing is, ALL other voice assistants I have tested get this right. I have submitted three reports to Alexa support about this very thing and they don't care. It's ridiculous that doing something that is so common would be so ingratiating.

If I meant 7pm I'd say 19:00 instead.