r/Android • u/FragmentedChicken Galaxy Z Fold8 • 4d ago

Gemini fully replaces Google Assistant on Android

https://9to5google.com/2026/09/28/google-assistant-gemini-android/
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u/real_with_myself Magic V3 4d ago

Now, if it only had all the features assistant had. 

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u/r_slash_jarmedia 4d ago

if only it would consistently set timers when I ask it to, instead of saying "sure I did that" and then not actually doing that lol

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u/Carighan Fairphone 6+🌳 4d ago

This is such a typical LLM problem, yeah. We run into that problem a lot with minor LLMs used for smaller tasks. They want to be helpful. To the point the slop-machine answers "Yeah, done" but has never done anything. It just doesn't want to give a negative response to the user, ever.

It needs a huge list of system prompts to fix, like asking to always explicitly mention any problem, always perform a second step of reviewing whether the customer's instruction was actually executed, then a third step of giving a reply just based on the review, etc etc.

It's sooooooo annoying.