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As rumoured in February, Microsoft's Siri rival in the upcoming Windows Phone 8.1 update is based on Halo's AI assistant Cortana.Voiced by the same actress, Jen Taylor, Cortana will keep a digital notebook detailing the phone owner's interests.
"Cortana is the only digital assistant that gets to know you, builds a relationship that you can trust, and gets better over time by asking questions based on your behaviour and checking in with you before she assumes you're interested in something," Microsoft explained on its blog announcement about the incoming update. This way you don't need to worry about her making wrongheaded assumptions about you the way Amazon's recommendations are often comically inaccurate or pandering. "She detects and monitors the stuff you care about, looks out for you throughout the day, and helps filter out the noise so you can focus on what matters to you."
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