I agree that you shouldn’t have to say “please” to set your egg timer or get the weather forecast. It would perhaps be amusing with a bot that refused to do any

I agree that you shouldn’t have to say “please” to set your egg timer or get the weather forecast. It would perhaps be amusing with a bot that refused to do anything unless you were extremely polite, but it wouldn’t be very practical. What’s interesting to me is how this is never a problem with a traditional menu or button based UI. Maybe I’m muttering “f*ck off” as I click “Remind me later” on the umpteenth alert of the day trying to get me to update this or that, but the software would never know. (On the other hand, you could argue that the software is offending me by trying to get me to do something that is mostly in the developer’s interest, and not allowing me to say “No” - this is where being able to be frank using voice input could be quite liberating)