I wish these companies wouldn't anthropomorphize the systems so much. I catch my mother calling Siri "her", and my wife calls Google Assistant "her" because she

I wish these companies wouldn't anthropomorphize the systems so much. I catch my mother calling Siri "her", and my wife calls Google Assistant "her" because she has it set to a feminine voice. I try to remind our small children that it's just a computer, there is no person behind it. It's important, because I've noticed that folks who humanize these assistants start having expectations of their capabilities that far exceed their reality. If you understand the assistant to be a crappy menu system on top of a regular, ol' Google Search, you can start to use them more effectively. My father thinks yelling the same request, word for word, will get a different response from Google. You might as well have tried typing a search into the Google website, got the wrong results, and then typed in the same search in all-caps. There's almost no continuity between commands. I wish they would not create continuity for the extremely small subset of factoid lookup commands they've manually programmed in and just leave everything to a single, unified model that is more predictable. I use Google Assistant to check the weather, add items to the family grocery list, play music, and entertain the kids with animal sounds. That's about all it's good for. It does it pretty well. But to expect more is an exercise in frustration.