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Ask HN: What do people think of Apple's Siri?

5 points by hireshbrem ↗ HN
I'm curious of what people really think of Siri.

Most of the things I've heard are pretty negative but is it just that Apple can't build a good enough assistant or is that people just don't interacting with one (in this specific way)?

Would love to hear any thoughts!

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nexmoe
I’m also really curious.

I usually prefer using other voice assistants, but Siri is kind of dumb, so I pretty much never use it.

al_borland
I’m not a voice assistant person, so I thought it was fine for what it was, especially historically. I’d mostly just use it to set timers and things.

Right now seems to be an odd time to evaluate it and prompt people to trash it, considering they just announced a complete overhaul coming in the fall that’s currently in a developer beta with a public beta coming next month.

moomoo11
call me weird but i never got into voice anything

i don't want to talk out loud to my devices, i just want to turn a dial or press a button and move on. god forbid i have to type.

hireshbrem
you're WEIRD lol

you've never wanted to say "hey siri, can you start a timer for 10 mins?" or "hey siri, what's the weather like?".

would you talk to your devices, if it made you more productive/do more cool stuff?

moomoo11
lol

ofc i tried it a few times

im so minimalist tbh

richstokes
Pretty bad. It seems to have very limited context, and it mostly cant follow up on things if you have additional things to ask. It was ~fine when it first came out, but seems to have made basically zero progress since then, and frankly feels pretty dumb compared to talking with modern LLM-type apps.
hireshbrem
yeah agree, i guess there was no compounding scaling tech that was used for siri but now that the new siri is coming out, it's interesting to see how people react to it and if they change their views.

i'm certainly open to changing mines!