You: "Alexa, turn off the lights."

Echo: "Okay. By the way, did you know I can do some other random thing wholly unrelated to the task you gave me, the description of which interrupts something that matters and now you've lost it because you are screaming at me to shut up, please god shut up, please never ever make suggestions?"

With my Google Home speaker, I’ll tell it to turn off the lights (which it probably has maybe 95% accuracy of getting right in the first place…). But it will then say “Okay, turning off 5 lights. By the way, you can ask me how long your morning commute will take!” which is just annoying when you’re trying to get to bed.

It advertises other functionality. Typically functionality that allows you to spend money with Amazon.

Siri has started telling me the company that provides it’s weather data every ~10th time I ask for the weather and I feel like even that crosses a line. I do hope Apple have a metric for how many customers swear at HomePods and have someone trying to minimise that.

Sometimes, after answering your actual query, Alexa continues to blather on about something useless, starting with "By the way..." I wish I knew how to stop it, but telling her "don't say by the way anymore" returns blank stares. Maddening.