I thought Clippy first shipped in XP
You may be mixing it up with the explorer search dog. Whose name was Rover, apparently.
aw he was so cute
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Re: Show HN: Clippy – 90s UI for local LLMs
#192Next up, "Rover" the dog from Microsoft Bob https://fabulous.systems/posts/2024/06/if-i-ever-get-a-dog-i...
I was more a fan of "The Dot", especially when it morphed into a Picasso face:
Re: Show HN: Clippy – 90s UI for local LLMs
#193Great job! Having ollama support would be useful as well[1]! [1] https://github.com/ollama/ollama
I thought this immediately also. I already have ollama set up to run llm tasks locally. I don't want to duplicate that but it would be fun to try this front end.
Re: Show HN: Clippy – 90s UI for local LLMs
#194quite cute
Re: Show HN: Clippy – 90s UI for local LLMs
#195We've all been thinking it :)
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#196Earlier 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.
clippy was also quite helpful though, as a kid with no idea what stuff i could do with Word.
its just that it outlived its welcome quickly, once i learned everything that i needed. the lesson to learn is i think about how to move from that guided experience into more power tools
Re: Show HN: Clippy – 90s UI for local LLMs
#197Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
I remember Clippy, but I don't remember why it was annoying. I am thinking that Robert Brooke's 3 laws of robotics applies here. (He had written one for AI but I think his thoughts on robotics are more relavent to AI agents).
It tends to randomly barge into your UI when you thought you dismissed/disabled it. And never provides any useful information or suggestions.
Re: Show HN: Clippy – 90s UI for local LLMs
#198Fun fact: the newest generation (such as myself, a 23 year old programmer) were actually not even alive when Clippy existed. I only know of it from an Office reference. One day I will have something like that -- maybe MSN or internet explorer?
It's not quite that bad! The last version of Office released with Clippy was in May 2003! So you would have been born, if only just.
My old daughter loved the cat https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ykGIcXKAXbI Not everybody updates Office on the day the new version is released, so they continue living for a long time.
Re: Show HN: Clippy – 90s UI for local LLMs
#199Earlier 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.
what about Links the cat. I used to love it.
Re: Show HN: Clippy – 90s UI for local LLMs
#200I love this, and will unironically use it as a little desktop LLM, but it seems to completely ignore the prompt that’s in the settings. No matter what model I install it’s just “being” the default model.
The general idea is awesome though, and a lot more fun than just having a quake-terminal to interface with local LLMs via ollama.