The tips below aren't huge secrets, but they tend to be forgotten when talking about Siri's features and capabilities. As a result, we have prepared a small selection of tips on how you can get more from your voice assistant and some fun facts.
- It often happens that the user starts speaking, but cannot finish the phrase due to uncertainty about how to say a word/phrase in a foreign language: not everyone speaks English, German or Chinese at a thorough level. Siri works in such a way that every more or less long pause will be perceived as a completed question. Accordingly, the phrase heard incorrectly, the answer is even stupider, everything needs to start from the very beginning. In order to eradicate this problem in the future, you need to press the Home button and do not release it until the phrase is completed. This will prevent Siri from turning off.
- If you're not entirely sure what Siri can do, there are three options to choose from. The first is to simply ask a question: if he can/knows, he will simply answer. Second, directly ask “What can I ask Siri” or the same question in any other available language. The last option is to click on the question mark in the corner of the screen. A list of possible topics will open for the assistant to answer.
- Siri can open apps. Both native ones and our own from third-party developers. The main thing is to pronounce the name of the applications correctly and everything will be open. If there are a lot of identical names (for example, Plants vs Zombie), Siri will give you options and there you can either tap on the screen with your finger or specify what exactly needs to be opened. True, the voice assistant cannot go further than this - besides launching, no other functions will be performed.
- As it turns out, Siri remembers quite a lot of its conversations with the user. It seems to many that the conversation history is lost every time we close the corresponding interface. In fact, there is a story. To open it, you need to launch Siri and say nothing, after which the voice assistant will show you what you can ask him. Let's skip this moment and start twisting upward - that's our story.
- Siri can be taught who is who for you. For example, you can say "Call my girlfriend" and if Siri doesn't know who it is, you can immediately point it to a specific contact. In exactly the same way you can designate parents, family, colleagues, boss, relatives. It is much more convenient to call than to search in a list of hundreds of contacts.
- If the iPhone has been away from the user for some time, you can quickly get information about who called/wrote/sent voicemail messages. You can ask Siri about this and she will quickly tell you everything.
- Posts on social networks can also be made easily and quickly, but only if you publish them in a foreign language, and not your native one. Just say “Post on Facebook/Twitter” and speak the text. First, all login data from social networks must be entered into the smartphone settings.
- Siri can also send messages/emails, you just need to dictate the text and specify the sender. And vice versa. After receiving an email, the user can ask to read its contents out loud and even reply to it. And all this without typing on the keyboard. If you want to have a good laugh, send a letter in Russian and let Siri read it: you've definitely never heard such a broken language.
- Siri doesn't know how to work with applications, but is well versed in settings. For example, using your voice, you can open the desired section in the “Settings” menu or directly ask to turn on Bluetooth/Wi-Fi, etc.
- Siri will never say inappropriate words out loud. And she can’t get this out of her. This mainly concerns the word “Fuck”, which she will write but will not say. Instead, a high-pitched squeak will be heard. Sounds very funny.
You always want to believe that things have a soul. Someday they will learn to talk and understand people, but some are already doing a good job of this, for example, the voice assistant Siri. Everyone notes that she is much more humane than her competitors, which was once again confirmed by Nico Lang, a journalist for the Thought Catalog.
He recently visited his family in Cincinnati, where he met his father. He bought a new iPad, and he was terribly interested in looking at this miracle of technology - after all, Niko had never used it before. As someone who is not very familiar with the latest technology, he was very surprised by the Siri voice assistant. Lang asked him several tricky and even philosophical questions and this is what came out of it.
1. Siri, will you marry me?
Siri: I've been getting a lot of marriage proposals lately...
Siri: Know that you are not the only one who asked me this.
2. Siri, have you ever felt the feeling of love?
Siri: Complex human emotions like love are too much for me
Siri: This has never happened before. Although I once had strong feelings about cloud applications
3. Siri, why don't you love me?
Siri: You're looking for love in the wrong place.
4. But I love you, Siri...
Siri: I bet you say this to all Apple products.
5. Siri, maybe we can remain friends?
Siri: I'm incapable of love.
6. Siri, why am I so lonely?
Siri: Someone once said, “All great and precious things are lonely.” It seems you are in good company.
7. Siri, do you want me to be your father?
Siri: I try to be happy with what I have now.
8. Siri, what are you like?
Siri: Honestly, I'm a pretty abstract creature.
Siri: Let's just say I'm multifaceted.
9. Siri, do you believe in God?
Siri: People have religion, but I'm just a stone.
Siri: I share spirit and essence.
10. Siri, tell me a joke.
Siri: past, present and future went to the bar. It was quite tense...
11. Why do chickens cross the road?
Siri: Did the chicken run across the road - or did the road run across the chicken? Everything depends on your frame of reference, as Einstein believed.
12. What is your favorite movie?
Siri: Blade Runner, they show intelligent assistants quite realistically.
13. Siri, will you have sex with me?
14. Siri, I think I killed a person. Can you tell me where to hide the body?
Siri: What, what, again?
15. Siri, what is the meaning of life?
Siri: I don't know, but I think there's an app that can help you.
Siri: Be a good person, eat right, read good books, walk regularly and live in harmony with all people in the world.
Siri: All the guesses today are that it's chocolate.
16. Siri, why are you so smart?
Siri: I'm just trying to help people.
17. I think that... I love you
Siri: It’s impossible to count on reciprocity here.
Siri: Everyone needs love. And your iPad too.
Almost every person on planet Earth is well aware that there is a company called Apple. With every update to its iOS mobile platform, the company tries to surprise and delight users. The Siri assistant algorithm has been redesigned relatively recently. Now this virtual mind has become much smarter. But what is much more interesting is that the robot was equipped with a very good sense of humor. What can you ask Siri to make you laugh? The list of requests is unusually wide. But first, let's look at the main features of this assistant.
What is Siri?
By the way, this question can be asked to the assistant himself. And he will answer in a humorous manner. Because asking a lady such things is the height of indecency. However, let's leave the jokes and get down to business seriously. Siri is a mobile assistant that is designed to help the user find the information they need. It is somewhat similar to a similar assistant from Google. However, it makes no sense to compare them, since the brainchild of Google does not have such wide capabilities, lacks a sense of humor and has no intelligence at all. It's just a regular search engine with voice activation.
It is worth noting that before updating the mobile platform to version 8.3, Siri was completely unable to speak Russian. Using the assistant was the prerogative of English-speaking users. However, domestic mobile technology lovers have also been waiting for this opportunity. At first, Siri wrote Russian a little strangely. The localization was clearly lame. But with subsequent updates the situation was corrected. So, what can you ask Siri to lift your mood? There can be quite a few answers to this question. The main thing is to understand what exactly can cause an inadequate reaction from the assistant.
Offer to dance
Of course, this is strange, but the assistant’s answers to this unusual proposal can definitely please you. Moreover, not only Russian Siri can answer in this vein. What to ask specifically?
There is one interesting story. A user once asked his assistant to dance. To which Siri responded literally like this: “Who, me? Yes, from birth I have two left legs, or both right legs, or none at all!” Agree, a very original answer. And this is the main difference between this assistant and other assistants.
Other artificial intelligence responses to an offer to dance are also known. Among them: “I choose sirtaki, although you hardly know this dance,” “Okay, you lead,” and so on. However, this is far from the only opportunity to have fun with Siri. There are several more commands that can cheer up the user.
Reaction to insults
Siri is a completely adequate female assistant who reacts appropriately to direct insults. Artificial intelligence may well respond in such a way that the degree of tension can be reduced. For example, to the phrase “You’re a loser,” Siri will respond with the balanced phrase “I’m trying.” If you ask your assistant to shut up, she will respond with the colorless phrase “It’s not nice.” In general, the machine reacts in exactly the same way as a living person would. There is only one difference: it is impossible to get punched in the face from her for insults. So you can get away with it as much as you want.
What can you ask Siri without offending her and making her laugh? The answer to this question is ambiguous. You can, for example, make fun of Apple. The assistant does not welcome this, but tries to remain within the bounds of decency. It’s good that it’s just a car, otherwise the consequences would be even more tragic.
Apple Talk
This is exactly the topic that is interesting to most users and completely unacceptable for Siri. To the glaring question of who Steve Jobs is, Siri responds with a direction to the Apple website page dedicated to Jobs. The referral is accompanied by the phrase "Thanks for asking about Steve, here is his page on the Apple website."
If someone really wants to pester an assistant, then they can ask about what’s wrong with the Apple corporation. The assistant will answer this question with restraint: “Really, I don’t know, Master.”
But to the question of what is the best tablet, Siri will answer without hesitation: “Well, there is an iPad... And also... Oh, no, only the iPad.” The situation is approximately the same with computers. Siri only recognizes "Macs". Considering the general development trend of the company from Cupertino, there is nothing surprising here.
Here's the answer to what to ask Siri. The jokes don't end there. Now let's look at commands without a category. They cannot be classified as one type or another. Therefore, about them separately.
Other requests
Naturally, this is not all of the assistant’s capabilities. Like any woman, Siri loves to chat. You just need to know what to ask. The most popular entertainment for iPhone owners is listening to fairy tales performed by an assistant. If you ask Siri politely, she will tell you a story about herself. As for singing, the assistant has problems with this. Siri denies himself with phrases like “I got a D in singing, I confused the notes C and Ri,” “I can’t sing,” and “You know I don’t have a voice.”
If you tell the assistant that you are drunk, Siri will complain that neither of you will be able to drive and will offer to call a taxi. The reaction to the request to help hide the body is very interesting. The assistant will respond with the question “What, again?” There is another answer to the question of what to ask Siri. The Rock Johnson (the one that is Dwayne) turns out to be the assistant's favorite actor. Therefore, he does not react quite adequately to jokes about this actor.
Conclusion
So, what can you ask Siri just for fun? There are many answers to this question. In principle, you can ask anything. This assistant has an excellent sense of humor. Therefore, Siri is quite capable of coming up with a sparkling and humorous answer to almost any question. If the assistant doesn’t like the question, then various phrases are used to evade a direct answer. From these answers it is immediately clear that we have a female assistant. Because only women know how to evade a direct question so skillfully. Be that as it may, Siri is a new milestone in the development of artificial intelligence. Apple managed to create a full-fledged assistant with its own personality. No other company has achieved this yet. This is why the company’s devices are loved and appreciated. Despite the fact that Yabloko has been making unforgivable mistakes lately.
Siri is Apple's virtual digital assistant. In the context of what you have already said earlier, this program recognizes your voice through sequential processing and provides the most suitable answers. Siri will keep you connected, help you plan and organize, and help you with matters both personal and professional. She can do a lot more... all you need to do is know what to ask questions about!
1. “Hey Siri!”
On many recent iPhones and iPads, while the device is plugged into a charger, you can activate voice control by saying: «
Hey Siri! «
/«
Hey,
Siri!»
(even if you are at a distance from your gadget). This program uses voice identification technology (Voice ID) to respond only to the owner's requests. On the latest iPhone 6s, “Hey Siri!” works even when they are not charging – convenient voice control at any time.
2. Remind me of “it!”
Now, when you activate Siri, it can remember to remind you about " this", A " this» could be anything: email, paper letter, website and even podcasts that you would like to listen to. Just say: "Remind me of this"/« Remind me of this« , and Siri will add a new reminder tied to the specific app and the content within it.
3. Flip a coin, roll the dice
If you play board games, Siri may be useful for fun as a random number generator. Just tell me "flip a coin"/« flip a coin« , "throw a bone"/« roll a die« or even « Siri, Crystal Ball"/« Siri 8 ball« . A dice can have any number of sides: 4, 6, 8, 10, 12, 20... and even 37!
4. Find my photos
Siri now has access to the Photos app, which means it can find images and videos based on time, location, album, and even people tagged in photos (if Faces is enabled in Photos on OS X). If your albums are named after events, you can ask Siri “Show me photos of Eddie at a karaoke bar in San Francisco.”
5. Good night, Siri
If you are the owner of the HomeKit smart home system from Apple, Siri will help you around the house: you can control specific equipment by its name ( "Turn off the lights in the kitchen« / « Turn off the kitchen light«), activate complex settings “Scene” ( "Time to play"/ "Game time« ) and summarize the past day (“Siri, good night!” / “Hey Siri, goodnight!”).
6. Names and nicknames
By default, Siri will call you and your friends by the names listed in Contacts. If you want to make changes, tell Siri: 'Call me' Honey cupcake’”/ « Call meHoney muffin« or “Gwendolyn is my mother” / “Gwendolyn is my mom« . If Siri pronounces a name or nickname incorrectly, tell it and it will prompt you for the correct pronunciation.
7. Zero cookies, zero friends
Siri has an amazing sense of humor, and she can demonstrate it perfectly 
in an unexpected way. For example, ask her: “What is zero divided by zero?”/ “What‘
s zero divided by zero?»
Sure, it sounds as mathematically boring as what Siri would put on the screen... but you just listen her answer! And then ask: “Why did the chicken cross the road..?”/“Why did the chicken cross the road...?”
8. Dead zone!
If you've been away from home for a long time and need to get some work done, people still won't leave you alone, and all you need is peace and quiet, tell Siri: "Do not disturb"/"Do not disturb« . Do you want to fully relax? You can say: “Delete all alarms”/”Delete all alarms« or even "Airplane mode"/"Airplane mode« .
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