  We present a dialogue elicitation study to assess how users envision
conversations with a perfect voice assistant (VA). In an online survey, N=205
participants were prompted with everyday scenarios, and wrote the lines of both
user and VA in dialogues that they imagined as perfect. We analysed the
dialogues with text analytics and qualitative analysis, including number of
words and turns, social aspects of conversation, implied VA capabilities, and
the influence of user personality. The majority envisioned dialogues with a VA
that is interactive and not purely functional; it is smart, proactive, and has
knowledge about the user. Attitudes diverged regarding the assistant's role as
well as it expressing humour and opinions. An exploratory analysis suggested a
relationship with personality for these aspects, but correlations were low
overall. We discuss implications for research and design of future VAs,
underlining the vision of enabling conversational UIs, rather than single
command "Q&As".
