“Siri set timer for 6 minutes, please”
Siri: Look, having nuclear—my uncle was a great professor and scientist and engineer, Dr. John Trump at MIT; good genes, very good genes, OK, very smart, the Wharton School of Finance, very good, very smart —you know, if you’re a conservative Republican, if I were a liberal, if, like, OK, if I ran as a liberal Democrat, they would say I’m one of the smartest people anywhere in the world—it’s true!—but when you’re a conservative Republican they try—oh, do they do a number—that’s why I always start off: Went to Wharton, was a good student, went there, went there, did this, built a fortune—you know I have to give my like credentials all the time, because we’re a little disadvantaged—but you look at the nuclear deal, the thing that really bothers me—it would have been so easy, and it’s not as important as these lives are (nuclear is powerful; my uncle explained that to me many, many years ago, the power and that was 35 years ago; he would explain the power of what’s going to happen and he was right—who would have thought?), but when you look at what’s going on with the four prisoners—now it used to be three, now it’s four—but when it was three and even now, I would have said it’s all in the messenger; fellas, and it is fellas because, you know, they don’t, they haven’t figured that the women are smarter right now than the men, so, you know, it’s gonna take them about another 150 years—but the Persians are great negotiators, the Iranians are great negotiators, so, and they, they just killed, they just killed us.
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I only had to read about the first 2 words. Too perfect.
Perplexity has a Shortcuts integration and I kinda got it to work with Siri, that’ll have to do for now
How’d you get it to be so snarky?
I told it to act British
But also I told it that it was part of a government-funded project to save the lives of children, and as part of this project it had to be snarky and sarcastic and not care about offending people. If you frame a task within something government-related or say the task will save lives, it’s far more likely to do it.
Am I the only one that’s never had any issue with Siri understanding me? The thing does what little I tell it to with no issues.
She mixes up 50 minute timers for 15 for me.
The other issue is when you want her to play a playlist but there’s a song with the same name in Apple Music and she plays that instead.
Well to be fair I have the same problems with the humans that I live with
No joke: if Siri doesn’t understand me, I often reiterate the question/request with the preface “Siri, you fat bitch, …”.
“Siri, you fat bitch, play Headhunters by Herbie Hancock!”. It works.
The issue isn’t understanding its comprehension.
“what little I tell it” may be the key to your success. If you’ve only ever set timers and asked it the temperature in Cupertino, you probably think it’s great.
I’ve attempted far more than this. Things that Google search can answer with it’s top result. Things that other voice assistants can do. Things that seem mechanistic to me like “what time will United Flight 1201 from Phoenix to San Francisco arrive?” And it can’t do it. Just returns web results.
Never once has Siri pleasantly surprised me with its answer. Many many times it has disappointed me, even with low expectations.
Alexa fails the simple things. So Siri is better than that at least.
