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Haha it's a fine balance between preventing this sort of craziness and having a voice assistant that is actually useful because it can do things.
In the settings->voice assistants page you can see exposed entities. Review them and remove anything you don't want it to be able to control.
You can also set up custom commands as an automation. You could probably set up an automation trigger to pick up on the phrases you want to block and respond with "I'm sorry Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that" (or something boring).