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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 legohead »

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…

Early on I gave it a custom instruction:

  Be informal, and make responses as short and concise as possible.  Do not waste words apologizing.

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

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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…

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

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Post by JCattheATM »

Spare_account wrote: post #150
bstsb wrote: post #147

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> mobile i have ublock origin on my pc and macbook. trying firefox mobile with ublock but it's still habit to open chrome on my phone

Strong recommend for Android, Firefox and uBlock Origin I also have these Extensions: ClearURLs Decentraleyes Privacy Badger I still don't care about cookies

Privacy Badger and UBlock Origin don't work well together, and LocalCDN is better than Decentraleyes

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

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Post by mixmastamyk »

snoman wrote: post #149
freedomben wrote: post #64

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> I'm kind of shocked Microsoft didn't already do this as an alt version of their CoPilot UI. Seriously! This makes me think nobody at Microsoft with the authority to approve something like that has a sense of humor and/or good business sense. The nostalgia would be enormous . Hell I'm a linux person now and I'd install Clippy if it supported Fedora

Clippy was a laughing stock and target of derisive comedy for years. It has such bad brand recognition that nobody should be surprised that they aren’t using it.

It was, but as someone without a dog in the hunt, I loved that ol' Clipmeister.

Especially the old 'suicide note' joke image... guess would be called a meme today.

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

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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…

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

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Post by fallinditch »

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…

Eloquently put.

... but I think we may be heading for a new 'golden age' of web animation and gratuitous creativity. Personally, I'm happy to see more crazy animated stuff, it's the corporate dark patterns and bad UX that I hate.

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

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Post by mrandish »

raydiak wrote: post #136
mrandish wrote: post #116

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> I'd rather be hunted by a Boston Dynamics robot than have to face Clippy on my screen every day. This is the first AI thing I've actually bothered to install on my computer. Until today, despite being a technologist, I've only played with AIs via browser. I think AIs are interesting and can be useful but, having retired early, I'm not writing code or work emails so there hasn't been any compelling need. I've though…

I'm in the exact same boat as you describe, except it was some other precompiled local-only project instead of this one that I tried a few months ago. That's why I said I like projects like these, because it's a fully private hassle free way to try out LLMs. Haven't really figured out any good purposes for it in my life, but I like to see these tools being made available to people without the time/motivation/savvy to…

> Which made it just another config burden when I'd be installing office on many computers in a day.

Ah, well that does explain why you have some... baggage. My experience was different as I wasn't supporting or interfacing regularly back then with anyone who wasn't tech savvy. I endured Clippy for about 30 seconds, realized it was a stupid idea only a big corporation would think was cool or useful, turned it off and moved on with my day.

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