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Comment by wtcactus | Hacker News Reader

I notice Siri still continues to be some embarrassing afterthought for Apple.

At least to non-native English speakers, Siri is really atrocious. Most of the time, it doesn't even get the simplest queries right.

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Based on the comments here [1] Siri is on old, hard to maintain codebase.

Which means Apple is likely going to just replace it entirely with a new LLM based system which we know they are working on.

[1] https://www.macrumors.com/2023/03/15/apple-engineers-working...

Don’t worry, as a native speaker it’s not much better. While it can transcribe your request well, it very rarely can actually do anything more than search the internet.

Well, it's even so idiotic than WHEN it understands me (it can't handle any environmental noise.), it will actively change the name of people I call regularly into the name of people I haven't speoken to in 5+ years.

It's plain stupid.

Siri is the Safari of voice assistants.

But Safari is actually competent… and good?

Let's say it has improved.

When? I’ve been using it for the last 10 years (exclusively!) and I’ve had zero issues with it.

I think these complaints sometimes come from web developers who perceive Safari as being slow to adopt web standard APIs. IMO this is justified in some cases, and not in others where Apple resists implementing certain APIs for principled and/or technical reasons.

For the most part, these issues don’t have a big impact on end users, except when web developers choose to target Chrome-only.

It's ok for users because we web developers have been working around Safari's issues for the last 10 years. Has gotten better, though.

I only use siri for cooking - hey siri, set timer 30 minutes, or - siri, wake me up in 2 hours

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