5 ways to get Alexa to shut up.

This article from PCWorld provides five ways to reduce the amount of unnecessary chatter from Amazon's voice assistant, Alexa. The first method is to turn off weather notifications, as they may duplicate alerts from other sources. The second method is to disable Amazon shopping notifications, which can provide excessive updates on orders. The third method is to turn off the "Always follow up" mode for reminders, which can prevent Alexa from repeatedly reminding users about incomplete tasks. The fourth method is to enable Brief Mode, which reduces Alexa's responses to a simple beep. Lastly, the article suggests a hack to temporarily stop Alexa's "by the way" digressions, or creating a routine to issue the command daily. [Extracted from the article]