How do I use it as a frontend for a locally hosted llm?
I have a 3090gtx, but never actually run/hosted any locally.
Cheers
Show HN: Clippy – 90s UI for local LLMs
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Re: Show HN: Clippy – 90s UI for local LLMs
#232Earlier 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.
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
Who can remember clippy right click "animate"?
Re: Show HN: Clippy – 90s UI for local LLMs
#233Earlier quoted context omitted.
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).
I think it was the modal dialog box that forced you to stop what you were doing and click 'piss off clippy', rather than being able to ignore it.
Additionally, there was an option that was on by default to use Clippy in place of confirmation dialogs. You'd try to close an unsaved file and instead of the usual Windows dialog you'd get Clippy asking whether you'd like to save changes instead.
Re: Show HN: Clippy – 90s UI for local LLMs
#234On a side note, I'm excited to see more an more ambitious side projects like these as LLMs empower hobbyists to do more in less time than was ever possible before.
Re: Show HN: Clippy – 90s UI for local LLMs
#235IIRC 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…
> Things like “did you know there’s an easier way to do what you’re doing”
That could come off just as patronizing as the original Clippy. If it said things like "Would you like me to generate you a letter for X?" it would be miles ahead of the original.
Re: Show HN: Clippy – 90s UI for local LLMs
#236Great 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…
>I'm kind of shocked Microsoft didn't already do this as an alt version of their CoPilot UI.
I attribute this to the fact that big corporations like Microsoft have so much bureaucracy and moving cogs that even something as simple as a request to reuse a UI element like Clippy would be stuck between the cogs forever.
Re: Show HN: Clippy – 90s UI for local LLMs
#237On a side note, I'm excited to see more an more ambitious side projects like these as LLMs empower hobbyists to do more in less time than was ever possible before.
no front, but your comment reads a little bit like it was written by an LLM trying to push usage of LLMs^^
Re: Show HN: Clippy – 90s UI for local LLMs
#238Earlier quoted context omitted.
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
Who can remember clippy right click "animate"?
That, wordart, and the secret flight sim in Excel 97 were the entirety of how I spent my school days.
Re: Show HN: Clippy – 90s UI for local LLMs
#239Earlier 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.
While true, it turned into a cultural phenomena, a close inspiration even showed up in Cyberpunk 2077 as an AI gun. So if MS would have revitalized it, it could have been done in a self ironic way to show some personality and taste and not be a cold, calculated money machine.
Re: Show HN: Clippy – 90s UI for local LLMs
#240Man do I ever miss this UI design. Nice work!
Go contribute to SerenityOS then!