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by wingerlang 3607 days ago
I don't like these "bot assistants" that seems so popular nowdays. Like who wants to type some string that may or may not be picked up correctly by some bot?

Some examples I see is something like

- "hey $financialbotnam"

- "Hey $user what do you want?"

- "Please send me my transations for groceries, bla and bla for july 24 2032 until august 23 2064, thanks"

- "Okay!"

- "Your transactions are bla and bla"

- "Thanks $financialbot, and what about my blah and bleh?"

- "bla bla bla"

And so on, seems just.. annoying.

That being said, on my local phone-website there have been one of those "Ask Sara" bots (since like 10 years) which I found works okay for what it is, but I suspect (and treat it like) it is just some search. So I usually just ask some keywords.

Which is kind of my point against the bots, I don't want to type stuff..

And I don't use voice stuff like for Siri etc. But if I did I might have a different opinion.