Yesterday there was an interesting posting about 'Things you're allowed to do': https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31705542<p>One point was that you can use personal assistant services.<p>A few weeks ago I actually signed up for virtual personal assistant (VPA) service because I had a specific problem: I needed to book an appointment through a company that had very long telephone queues, and they were only operating during my work hours were meetings would interfere with me sitting in the phone queue. I tasked an assistant to sit in the phone queue and book an appointment for me.<p>It worked out great! After just a day I got a message back from the VPA that they had booked me at a time when I had availability!<p>It felt like a huge load off my back to just have it done, after having tried several times and not managing to get through the queue before I needed to head for a work meeting.<p>After this, I'm excited about using the VPA to simplify my life even further.<p>However, I'm not sure what I can use it for. It seems really convenient for organizing travel, but I don't have any travel planned.<p>Do people of HN have experience simplifying their lives with virtual personal assistants?<p>What kind of things have you used virtual personal assistants for?<p>Have you tried integrating it in you jobs? I would love to use it for things such as booking meeting rooms at work, etc. But I think secrecy in our company (it's a biotech) would prevent this.
Do Not Pay has a feature where they automate that process for you, although I've never tried it and I'm sure there's probably a lot of limitations to it, but for me, it's something I look forward to in the future: The ability to automate a lot of services that maybe only humans could previously do.<p>I'm also not sure how much of it is actual automation and just a random person sitting on the call for you, but still, I like the spirit of the company.<p><a href="https://donotpay.com/learn/customer-service/" rel="nofollow">https://donotpay.com/learn/customer-service/</a>