What Does a Virtual Assistant Do Best?

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Gives directions

1612 votes / 15%

Gives reminders

2246 votes / 21%

Finds a place to eat

349 votes / 3%

Helps win trivia games

579 votes / 5%

Helps cooking

179 votes / 1%

Gives advice

195 votes / 1%

Gives faux human contact

2109 votes / 20%

Helps Find CowboyNeal

2964 votes / 28%

10233 total votes.

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The missing SEX option (Score:3, Insightful)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Monday August 27, 2012 @09:32AM (#41136033)

Or was it "Helps Find CowboyNeal"?

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What it does best: (Score:5, Insightful)

by Hartree ( 191324 ) writes: on Monday August 27, 2012 @09:59AM (#41136207)

Act as a selling point for yet another piece of tech gewgaw.

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Drain my phone's battery (Score:5, Insightful)

by DigitalSorceress ( 156609 ) writes: on Monday August 27, 2012 @10:47AM (#41136587)

my Oblig. "My Answer Not Present"...
Drains the crap out of my phone's battery.
I've made the mistake of using Siri the other day and must not have exited properly - the phone got really hot and used up its entire battery... this is not the firs time that's happened.
Maybe the "derp" is mine, but it made this the first option thought of.

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Virtual Assistant meaning "calendar"? (Score:5, Insightful)

by Nkwe ( 604125 ) writes: on Monday August 27, 2012 @11:38AM (#41137169)

If by Virtual Assistant you include my calendar which is synced between my various computers and phone, "giving reminders" is by far the most useful assistant "tech" I have - I use it every day. No, I don't talk to it and it doesn't talk to me, but it provides me the best level of assistance of all the items listed.

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Re:False assumtion: It does *nothing* "good” (Score:3, Insightful)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Monday August 27, 2012 @02:09PM (#41139267)

Perhaps smelting iron ore into steel?

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The missing SEX option (Score:3, Insightful)

What it does best: (Score:5, Insightful)

Drain my phone's battery (Score:5, Insightful)

Virtual Assistant meaning "calendar"? (Score:5, Insightful)

Re:False assumtion: It does nothing "good” (Score:3, Insightful)

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The missing SEX option (Score:3, Insightful)

What it does best: (Score:5, Insightful)

Drain my phone's battery (Score:5, Insightful)

Virtual Assistant meaning "calendar"? (Score:5, Insightful)

Re:False assumtion: It does *nothing* "good” (Score:3, Insightful)

Re:False assumtion: It does nothing "good” (Score:3, Insightful)