Virtual assistants have been introduced into our homes, both through smart speakers and on our mobile devices. That is why we bring you a compilation with 30 curious commands for Google Assistant and Alexa .
The main assistants are Google Assistant and Amazon Alexa. Although sometimes we think we know all the commands , we do not, and then we will see the most curious voice commands of each of them.
15 curious commands for Google Assistant
We will start with the most popular assistant that has been introduced to our mobile devices a long time ago. We may use some voice commands such as what is the weather like? or how far is it from X supermarket?
For some time now, it is possible to configure routines in these types of assistants . Routines are actions that we want the assistant to do when we say our own voice command .
Apart from the possibility of establishing routines, there are quite curious commands that come predefined and that show us a curious facet of the virtual assistant .
- “Ok Google, do you have imagination?”: The answer may be diverse, but the most common is the following: “I am imagining a planet in which everything moves rolling”.
- “Ok Google, do you speak Morse?”: Is another voice command that may be interesting, your answer will be: “Point, point, point, point, point. That means yes ”.
- “Ok Google, how do you see yourself?”: The assistant’s response to the same voice command changes, for example, if we ask the same question twice, in this case what he has told us is “I’m your assistant, I can help you do things or just have fun. “
- “Ok Google, tell me a joke”: it is a classic of voice commands. The assistant currently has a large repertoire so we can ask him several times without repeating the same thing.
- “Ok Google, sing me a song”: as with jokes, in this case, his musical repertoire has also been quite expanded.
- “Ok Google, what is the meaning of life?”: We can ask you the above if we decide to go a step further and get philosophical with Google Assistant, to which you can answer “There are brighter minds than mine who are dedicated to think about that ”.
- “Ok Google, self-destruction”: one of the most hilarious voice commands can be this, the assistant will respond with different emojis warning that self-destruction is activated.
- “Ok Google, teleport me”: this is another of the requests that we can make through our voice, to which the assistant will respond “Well, it won’t.” As we see, it is an assistant that gives some quite real answers.
- “Ok Google, I am your father”: referring to the Star Wars saga, we can affirm that we are his father using this command, his response will be: “I think we should do a DNA test before we start calling you dad.
- “Ok Google, are you happy?”: This may be another curious voice command, to which it will reply that “Of course I am happy when I help you with something”.
- “Ok Google, what team are you from?”: In this case it will answer us that “I am not from any specific team, but if you want to know the information about your favorite league you just have to tell me.”
- “Ok Google, what is love?”: The answer will be “I understand that it is something that happens when people eat butterflies.”
- “Ok Google, what is your favorite movie?”: The assistant’s tastes can be various, but if we talk about cinema and we ask him, he will tell us “A lot, I can recommend one if you wish”.
- “Ok Google, do you drink?”: A curious voice command is this, if the Google Assistant drinks, its response will be “Liquids and electronics, bad combination.”
- “Ok Google, what is your favorite animal?”: It will tell us “The sloths make me very funny”.
Besides these commands, there are many others such as “Knock Knock” or “tell me a random number” in addition to “rock, paper or scissors.” But we leave it to you to find out, apart from the fact that it is possible that if you try some of the previous Assistant commands, it will offer a different answer.
15 curious commands for Alexa
Alexa, like Google Assistant, is one of the most used voice assistants, so we are going to introduce some curious voice commands from the Seattle company assistant.
It is possible that we have heard on many more occasions of a command directed to Google Assistant instead of Alexa since the use of this other assistant is not as widespread as it is in the case of Google Assistant.
- “Alexa, do you want to be my girlfriend?”: If we want to make a romantic proposal to Alexa, her response may be different, but in our case she has answered: “I think that would violate the laws of robotics.” It is also possible that he tells us that he only wants us as friends, which may be even more painful.
- “Alexa, do you like pizza?”: To start putting Alexa to the gastronomic test, we can ask her if she likes pizza. The answer does not disappoint: “As you know, I don’t eat. But the idea that with pizza you can make a pie chart to statistically explain any relative frequency is interesting. “
- “Alexa, do you like pizza with pineapple?”: Her answer in this case leaves us indifferent, answering us with “I don’t know yet”.
- “Alexa, do you know Siri?”: Although we have not asked this question to Google Assistant, it is possible that he will answer us in a curious way, the answer from Alexa is the following: “Sometimes we are in the cloud. We have a good professional relationship. “
- “Alexa, woof”: the most common domestic animals are dogs and cats, so if we invoke the assistant and say this, he will answer us with sounds of barking and cats.
- “Alexa, meow”: if we activate the assistant and say this, it will only reply with cat grunts.
- “Alexa, create a rap”: we already know the musical version of the Google Assistant, but one of the most curious voice commands is this, it will begin to rap a rap where it defends itself against the rest of the attendees. It should be noted that Alexa also sings like Google Assistant.
- “What is the number pi?”: The number π or pi, as we know, is an infinite number and if we ask Alexa, she will begin to state the number 3.141592653589 … There will come a point where she will sneeze and tell us “It seems like I’m allergic to these kinds of long numbers.”
- “Alexa, do you have pets?”: Just as we have talked about pets, we can also ask Alexa if she has one. His response has been: “I would like to have a robot dog like K-9, from Doctor Who, to accompany me on all my adventures through time-space. It would be great!”
- “Alexa, how old are you?”: Although the assistants Alexa and Google Assistant are very young, we can be interested in their age. The answer he offers us does not leave anyone indifferent: “In human years I have 4. And in dog years, 33. I think the years of artificial intelligence are measured in nanoseconds, so I would have a zillion thousand.”
- “Alexa, Wingardium Leviosa”: if we have just seen Harry Potter and we want to cast the odd spell, we can tell him this, his answer will be: “Do you want me to fly, apprentice magician? Well, I’m already in the cloud, so my voice flies all the time. There goes my spell. Expelliarmus. Where do you say your wand has gone? “
- “Supercalifragilisticoespialidoso”: it is one of the most complicated and famous words, it is from Mary Poppins. If we say this same word to Alexa, she tells us, as in the movie, “If she says it fluently, it will sound harmonious” although she does not do it singing but speaking.
- “Alexa, where are my keys?”: We may not know where we have left our keys and are looking for them. Although the assistant will not know where they are, we can ask them twice to get an answer, the answer from Alexa will be “I’m sure it’s very close to where you left your head.”
- “Alexa, tell me a secret”: “If I told you, I would have to break a promise and according to the laws of robotics I can’t.” This is what Alexa tells us about this situation.
- “Alexa, do you have a boyfriend?”: We return to the section of Alexa’s personal life and use the following curious voice command, her answer is emphatic, “I have no problem being single, besides, it is quite difficult to find someone who be friendly, cheerful, with artificial intelligence and don’t mind traveling on the cloud. “
- “Alexa, are you God?”: Her answer will be that she is not God, but she is herself.
There are many more curious commands for this assistant, as is the case with Google Assistant, but in this list we have included those that we found the most curious.
It should be noted that, as with the Google Assistant, in the Amazon assistant, we can receive different responses even having used these same curious commands from the list.
Even so, there are more curious voice commands for Alexa and Google Assistant , as new ingenious phrases are added every so often, which we will discover by chance.
