I bought an Amazon Echo Dot, which I have just about set up. It's fun figuring out all the stuff it can do.
We have quickly learned to avoid saying her name unless we wanted to have a conversation. "Did you tell she-who-must-not-be-named to set an alarm?"
I spent some time getting Alexa to work with my alarm system, Ring video camera, thermostat and Bose sound system. I'm still figuring out some stuff about the right verbal commands to get it to play music from my library.