Alexa Further Personalizes AI?

 Considering what this means for me and other users.  A step towards an assistant that can aid and nudge in new ways?  Well no, not that I can see yet in any assistants.    I have been itching for something more proactive, that can be tuned for specific goals and next steps, not just tiny increases in efficiency with routines.  Personally not interested.  As the assistant makers running scared of intrusive AI?   Want more than choosing music. 

Personal Reminders to Your Phone Only   by Eric Hal Schwartz in Voicebot.ai

Alexa users can customize the commands incorporated into Alexa routines. The new feature allowing users to write out their own additions to the combination of commands Alexa carries out when it hears a key phrase. Routine custom actions, along with personalized reminders from the voice assistant pushed to an individual phone, are part of the latest upgrade package for Alexa.  ... "

Google Improves Conversation

This is always what I have wanted, an assistant conversation that starts with shared memory, uses the strongest context ongoing, and leads to actual goals.  Google/Home assistant is not there yet, but moving in the right direction.  Following with some experiments.  Thoughts?

Google is making it easier to have a conversation with your Assistant
You don't have to say "Hey Google" over and over anymore.

By Nathan Ingraham, @nateingraham in Engadget.

The Google Assistant has been the star of the past few I/O developer conferences, so we're not surprised to see new features being announced today. One of the biggest is "continued conversation" -- which means, essentially, that you won't need to say "Hey Google" every single time you want to ask the Assistant a question. In a demo, Google showed someone asking what the score of the last Golden State Warriors game was. From there, he was able to follow up and ask "When are they playing next?" without having to say "Hey Google" again to activate it.

In the same vein, Google also talked about "multiple actions," which lets you ask more than one question or do more than one thing at once. For example, you could say, "Tell me the weather in New York City and San Francisco" or "Turn off my lights and turn on the popcorn maker."

Google also announced an update for Routines (which I tried out recently). My biggest complaint was that you couldn't build your own Routines; you were stuck with six pre-set options that you could customize. But now you can build a Routine from scratch, so you can basically throw any Google Assistant action into your new Routine. And later this year, Google will let you time up Routines as well.  ... "