Prompts I expect to work in a voice assistant

Apple intelligence is slowly rolling out, meanwhile people are building their own versions of voice assistants similar to Alexa & Siri. I think its a good time to think about what prompts we can expect to work in a basic voice assistant, this might serve as a good test case repository to see how voice assistants perform.

This is excluding very basic prompts like

  • set a timer for 15 minutes
  • remind me to switch off the geyser after fifteen minutes

and many more. These are already well supported by most of the voice assistants out there.

Prompts

  • Set an alarm three hours before the flight departure tomorrow
    • Should read the calendar, figure out that a meeting invite for a flight is set to 9am in the morning. Set an alarm at 6AM.
  • Mark schedule visit to dentist as complete
    • Should query reminders, find out what’s the reminder about the dentist and mark it complete