Agreed, it's preferable for AI voice assistants to sound more like the ship computer in Star Trek TNG — that is, to the point with just enough politeness to not

Agreed, it's preferable for AI voice assistants to sound more like the ship computer in Star Trek TNG — that is, to the point with just enough politeness to not be curt, using expressions of uncertainty only when uncertainty is present — than fluffing things up with meaningless mimicry of humans.