Judging by the frequent frustration I've witnessed whenever visiting two separate friends who own Alexas, no they are not good now.

On another note, I am continuously flabbergasted that even Google cannot get an agentic LLM assistant right. I used to use the Google Assistant ALL the time when it did not make use of LLM's. It was AMAZING. I could just say "wake me up at 7" and it would understand that I meant 7AM the next day, or call "mom", or "set a timer for 10 minutes" while I'm cooking. It was genuinely useful to me.

Google Assistant last week sent me to the Google Search page with my prompt "wake me up at 7am", and Gemini read out loud "setting an alarm for 7am tomorrow morning". But it was bullshit, it doesn't have the power to set alarms, it was just gaslighting me.

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danans 2 days ago | parent | next [-]

> Gemini read out loud "setting an alarm for 7am tomorrow morning". But it was bullshit, it doesn't have the power to set alarms, it was just gaslighting me.

The Gemini on my Google Home has the ability to set alarms. Maybe it's a permissions issue on your device.

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bogzz 2 days ago | parent [-]

I'm talking about the Google app on every Android with gapps on it. It used to be able to do this for you, and now it just does web search. It's a massive downgrade.

	▲	iamdelirium 2 days ago \| parent [-]
		Gemini sets alarms for me in Android all the time via voice chat all the time. Did you give it permission to interact with the apps?

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genghisjahn 2 days ago | parent | prev [-]

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