“What are you doing tonight?”
Elicits a variety of responses, my favourite being something like “gazing out of the window and composing haikus”.
“Are you naked?’
gets “and here I thought you loved me for my mind.”
I have better conversations with Siri than I’ve had with a few people I could mention (mostly Brand Managers)
But my absolute best is:
*LAUGHS*
gets “LOL” (L-O-L)
(Seriousry though but – does “Siri” come from “ask a silly question” in a Chinee accent?)
Q: “Are you silly?”
A: “We were talking about you, not me.”
Q: “I really Love you.”
A: “Is that why you’re holding me tight?”
Q: “Should I get out more?”
A: “I can’t answer that.”
Q: “Talk dirty to me.”
A: “I can’t. I’m as clean as the driven snow.”
You can get a stand/charger for the iPhone called the Iris 9000, which looks spookily like the comms unit for the HAl 9000.
Ask Siri to Beatbox. It’s hilarious!
Ask it to rap. “Apologies in advance to The Sugar Hill Gang.”
“Which is better Siri or Cortana?”
The iPhone either explodes at this point, or goes very quiet and moody
And six weeks later, you ask it to show you your calendar and it says “Why don’t you get Cortana to do it for you, seeing as you like her so much?”
Do you drink?
I have a thirst for knowledge.
I Once tried to find an obscure town on Google Maps using Siri. The first couple of results were wrong. ‘No, you stupid effing machine!?’ Tart and wounded reply ‘I’m doing my best.’
I feel this latest technology has passed me by. Having never used Siri you are not painting a very rosy picture of it. Think I will stick to Encyclopedia Brittanica – or would do if we had ever taken up the very kind offer form the very nice door to door salesman all those years ago. ‘Mum, they would really help me with my homework’ .Mum: ‘We already have a mortgage, we don’t need another one’.
Slightly off-thread, but there was a mention on Radio 4 around Christmas about a character called ‘Siri’ in a 1960s novel, or short story. Annoyingly, I can’t remember the author concerned; possibly Philip K. Dick?
After one dead end of a search Mrs. K shouted in frustration “Why are you so useless!?”
Came the reply, “Why are you so fat?”.
True story.