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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 spauldo »

rossant wrote: post #121
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.

You might look into vigor, a mean-spirited version of clippy for the vi editor.

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

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Post by spauldo »

TiredOfLife wrote: post #230
jayGlow wrote: post #151

Earlier quoted context omitted.

if it ran entirely on the local machine and didn't send information back to Microsoft I think people would be far more accepting of it.

That's exactly what recall was and is

You missed the "for now" at the end of that sentence.

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

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Post by jeroenhd »

One underused Clippy feature is the fact that Clippy and all the other Agents (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Agent), like the dog that did search in Windows XP, came with an API developers could use to write their own assistants.

Thanks to the horrific beauty of ActiveX, this even allowed these Agents to be loaded into web pages.

The API was supported up till Windows 7 (though it was an optional component at the time) but still I would love for someone to dig up an old copy of the agent SDK (I couldn't find it myself) and hook up ChatGPT to the real, actual Clippy.

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

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Post by 0points »

raydiak wrote: post #78
concerndc1tizen wrote: post #21

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You sure wouldn't want them spying on you, stealing your data, chewing up your resources for shady profit schemes, or making your machine unbootable. Better to leave that to the experts at Microsoft and FAANG since all those features come preinstalled nowadays. Snark aside, given the context, this really seems like a baseless attack on independent open source developers, who represent a significant potion of this sit…

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

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Post by codebolt »

thunfischtoast wrote: post #237
codebolt wrote: post #234

On 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^^

Maybe I've been chatting with them so much I'm starting to sound like one myself.

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

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Post by pr337h4m »

vunderba wrote: post #49
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…

We are probably getting closer to that with the newer multimodal LLMs, but you'd almost need to take a screenshot on intervals fed directly to the LLM to provide a sort of chronological context to help it understand what the user is trying to do and gauge the users intentions. As you say though, I don't know how many people would be comfortable having screenshots of their computer sent arbitrarily to a non-local LLM.

Models with native video understanding would do the trick - Advanced Voice Mode on the ChatGPT iOS/Android app lets you use your camera, works pretty well; there's also https://aistudio.google.com/live (AFAIK there are no open-source models with similar capabilities)
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