If you're going to talk to a smart assistant out loud in front of other people, at least give your shortcuts names which sound like like trashy thrillers.

Tired: Hey Siri, turn out the lights.
Wired: Siri, activate the Hades contingency. Alexa, initiate project Dædalus. Okay Google, proceed to omega phase.

Start with a dramatic action verb like "engage", "commence", or "execute". Throw in a mythological figure which needn't have any actual relation to the action set. Then round it out with a nonsense word from an espionage drama, like "protocol", "sequence", "directive", or so on.
@tilde I am still waiting for them to let the hail word be customized so I can start with “synergy,”
@glyph @tilde oh that's not a bad one at all. Home Assistant does allow this now (we're not sure how reliable it is since we haven't set it up), maybe the commercial ones will follow suit if they feel substantial competitive pressure.

@ireneista @glyph @tilde

something I observed with early amazon echos is that the three wakewords, "alexa", "echo", and "computer" have hard consonant sounds spaced pretty evenly apart -- "aLeXa", "eC-Co", "ComPuteR", and so does "oKaY GooGLe", "HeY GooGLe", "Si-Ri"

(presumably) to aid the fact that they're running the voice assistants on the most pared down microcontroller their value engineering team could slice down

but HomeAssistant has a lot more processing power for custom wakes