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Show HN: Clippy – 90s UI for local LLMs

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Re: Show HN: Clippy – 90s UI for local LLMs

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Post by rossant »

jl6 wrote: post #45

IIRC correctly, Clippy’s most famous feature was interrupting you to offer advice. The advice was usually basic/useless/annoying, hence Clippy’s reputation, but a powerful LLM could actually make the original concept work. It would not be simply a chatbot that responds to text, but rather would observe your screen, understand it through a vision model, and give appropriate advice. Things like “did you know there’s an…

Even funnier would be to make it unnecessarily mean and vexing.

Wait, are you really looking this up? You don't even know how to do this? Are you kidding me?

Gosh, it's been an hour and you still haven't fixed this bug? Are you retarded or something? You don't deserve this job.

Re: Show HN: Clippy – 90s UI for local LLMs

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Post by basch »

mrandish wrote: post #56

Great idea! I've been humorously referring to chat agents as next gen Clippy because of their chipper, talky default personas which I find insufferably annoying. I'm kind of shocked Microsoft didn't already do this as an alt version of their CoPilot UI. Really a huge miss on their part because I hate the overbearingly intrusive way they keep forcing it into their OS, apps and my fucking laptop keyboard. If they at le…

They will. It’s a no brainer to add a visual to the personality.

They can bring back clippy, Cortana, and all the other variants, in classic or modern mode. Hell why not a BonziBuddy knockoff.

An opportunity for Carmen Sandiego as well.

Re: Show HN: Clippy – 90s UI for local LLMs

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Post by volkk »

raydiak wrote: post #103

I'm all for these prepackaged local-only AI projects. Much more my speed than corporate cloud services. Real shame this one went down the path of choosing an embodiment that makes me want to shoot holes in my screen. It's even worse than those pixel art cats that chase my cursor on certain blogs. I miss plenty of things about the 90s, but I seriously doubt I'll live long enough to forget how much Clippy is not one of…

i'm not sure if this post was written with humor as intent, but i found it hilarious. ive never heard someone talk about clippy with such disdain.

> I'd rather be hunted by a Boston Dynamics robot than have to face Clippy on my screen every day.

this is something else. i dealt with clippy when i was younger but i only have fond memories. it was useless, but it brought personality to an otherwise fairly mundane product.

Re: Show HN: Clippy – 90s UI for local LLMs

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Post by fallinditch »

joeyagreco wrote: post #104
mrandish wrote: post #56

Great idea! I've been humorously referring to chat agents as next gen Clippy because of their chipper, talky default personas which I find insufferably annoying. I'm kind of shocked Microsoft didn't already do this as an alt version of their CoPilot UI. Really a huge miss on their part because I hate the overbearingly intrusive way they keep forcing it into their OS, apps and my fucking laptop keyboard. If they at le…

Just had ChatGPT make this: https://ibb.co/pB4SPJBW

Am I right to feel wary of clicking this link? My spidy sense says 'don't do it'.

Re: Show HN: Clippy – 90s UI for local LLMs

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Post by xyc »

tzury wrote: post #48

This is a clear case of "Build Something People Want". After all it was requested almost daily over at x.com https://x.com/search?q=ai%20bring%20clippy%20back&src=typed_...

Actually this is a good way to find product ideas. I placed a query in Grok to find posts about what people want, similar to this. Then it performs multiple searches on X including embedding search, and suggested people want stuff like tamagotchi, ICQ etc. back.

Re: Show HN: Clippy – 90s UI for local LLMs

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Post by basch »

raydiak wrote: post #103

I'm all for these prepackaged local-only AI projects. Much more my speed than corporate cloud services. Real shame this one went down the path of choosing an embodiment that makes me want to shoot holes in my screen. It's even worse than those pixel art cats that chase my cursor on certain blogs. I miss plenty of things about the 90s, but I seriously doubt I'll live long enough to forget how much Clippy is not one of…

I’d prefer it be an OS API.

You link your os to a local or cloud llm, and a local program asking the OS for a response and can’t even tell which one you’re using or whether it’s on the machine or not. It should all be abstracted away.

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