[azinman2]

I use it almost daily for something that is simple but under appreciated I don’t know why it’s not in every marketing video: “Siri, remind me tomorrow at 10am to do X”

I outsource so much of my memory to the phone via Siri ALL THE TIME. It’s so useful. Even for things in 20m. I’ll easily forget if I don’t do this, and it’s reliable so it gives me confidence. It also keeps the notification present until I actually do the thing, so I have a kind of string around my finger until the task is accomplished. I can also snooze that notification as needed to rebring it up at the right time.

Every time I do this around non-tech people they go “wow I didn’t know you could do that.” I swear it’s literally life changing, particularly for anyone over 30.

[ribosometronome]

Especially with Shortcuts, Siri can have some pretty useful functionality. My personal big improvement I'd like to see is being able to better able to tap into those actions without having to set things up in advance.

[jwells89]

In addition to Shortcuts, being an Apple thing, Siri naturally has native HomeKit integration which is powerful when combined with HomeAssistant.

[MBCook]

I’m really hoping for something like that.

A year or so ago I remember someone pointing out in a podcast how LLMs are great at taking something like general language and turning it into a series of predefined commands (the stuff available to shortcuts). It would instantly make Siri much more useful.

I think Federico Viticci rigged up something similar or at least a powerful demo using Siri + Shortcuts + ChatGPT to be able to answer all sort of questions better than native Siri.

[MBCook]

Yep. Reminders is #1 by far, followed by sending texts, turning lights on/off with HomeKit and timers which are similar.

I can’t imagine reminders w/o Siri because that’s how I add 90%+ of them. Grocery items, things to do at time X, or when I get to (or leave) work/home are the big ones.