I use voice assistants for one task: Setting a timer. The oven is in another area of the house, so when I come back to squeeze in some work, I often just said

I use voice assistants for one task: Setting a timer. The oven is in another area of the house, so when I come back to squeeze in some work, I often just said "Voice Assistant, set a timer for 10 minutes!" And that's about it. Apart from that I worked on some chat-bots in the past and it's the very same thing to me, just even a bit worse because of audio. Natural language processing simply isn't there AND there is just a few very niche use cases in my eyes. So if they go away again, I won't cry or rather my tears will dry fast.