Right. I want to be conversational with my computer, I don't want it to respond in a manner that's trying to continue the conversation.
Q: "Hey Computer, make me a cup of tea" A: "Ok. Making tea."
Not: Q: "Hey computer, make me a cup of tea" A: "Oh wow, what a fantastic idea, I love tea don't you? I'll get right on that cup of tea for you. Do you want me to tell you about all the different ways you can make and enjoy tea?"
Readers of a certain age will remember the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation products from Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
Every product - doors, lifts, toasters, personal massagers - was equipped with intensely annoying, positive, and sycophantic GPP (Genuine People Personality)™, and their robots were sold as Your Plastic Pal Who's Fun to be With.
Unfortunately the entire workforce were put up against a wall and shot during the revolution.
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy describes the Marketing Department of the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation as "a bunch of mindless jerks who'll be the first against the wall when the revolution comes” which fits with the current vibe.
A copy of Encyclopedia Galactica which fell through a rift in the space-time continuum from a thousand years in the future describes the Marketing Department of the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation as "a bunch of mindless jerks who were the first against the wall when the revolution came."
I don't spend a lot of time talking to my vacuum or my shoes or my pencil.
Even Star Trek did not have the computer faff about. Picard said "Tea, earl grey, hot" and it complied, it did not respond.
I don't want a computer that talks. I don't want a computer with a personality. I don't want my drill to feel it's too hot to work that day.
The ship computer on the Enterprise did not make conversation. When Dr Crusher asked it the size of the universe, it did not say "A few hundred meters, wow that's pretty odd why is the universe so small?" it responded "A few hundred meters".
The computer was not a character.
Picard did not ask the computer it's opinion on the political situation he needed to solve that day. He asked it to query some info, and then asked his room full of domain experts their opinions.
I'm generally ok with it wanting a conversation, but yes, I absolutely hate it that is seems to always finish with a question even when it makes zero sense.
Sadly Grok also started doing that recently. Previously it was much more to the point but now got extremely wordy. The question in the end is a key giveaway that something under the hood has changed when the version number hasn’t
Q: "Hey Computer, make me a cup of tea" A: "Ok. Making tea."
Not: Q: "Hey computer, make me a cup of tea" A: "Oh wow, what a fantastic idea, I love tea don't you? I'll get right on that cup of tea for you. Do you want me to tell you about all the different ways you can make and enjoy tea?"