When Apple's Siri hit the scene in 2011, we were all pretty pumped at the prospect of
having a virtual personal assistant in our pocket. And yeah, she's pretty neat and occasionally a little witty, but she's far from infallible, sounds like a disembodied robot head, and could stand to be quite a bit more helpful.
Enter Amazon, which has been hard at work improving upon its very own virtual assistant, Alexa, ever since she made her grand debut with the Echo wireless speaker last year. Turn on the Echo (or the slightly smaller Echo Dot), and Alexa is like a personal assistant on standby in the room with you; she's voice-activated, so you call out her name and then say a command.
What exactly can she do, you ask? Here's how to harness her powers to make your life better. https://www.thrillist.com/tech/nation/best-alexa-commands-easter-eggs-on-amazon-echo/tech
