Decades later, you made a version of Clippy that might actually be useful. Congratulations!
Show HN: Clippy – 90s UI for local LLMs
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#252This is so cute!
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#253I really love the style.
I wish this sort of style had a more specific name and could be decoupled from the desktop a bit more.
Would love to see a native webpage inspired by windows 2000 or similar. I've struggled to find a name for it.
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#254One 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…
That has a lot of potential. Give it a normal demeanor that progressively gets more aggressive and hostile towards the user.
Re: Show HN: Clippy – 90s UI for local LLMs
#255One 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…
https://github.com/pi0/clippyjs exists...
Re: Show HN: Clippy – 90s UI for local LLMs
#256Nice project! Looks good and seems like something I’d genuinely want to use day to day.
Re: Show HN: Clippy – 90s UI for local LLMs
#257One 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…
That has a lot of potential. Give it a normal demeanor that progressively gets more aggressive and hostile towards the user.
Synergies with a useful assistant for code seem relevant : https://vigor.sourceforge.net/
Re: Show HN: Clippy – 90s UI for local LLMs
#258Great 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…
In a few places, Microsoft sneaks in clever references to Clippy in the Azure LLM documentation[0]. Nice to see they're still letting a bit of humor shine through here and there.
[0]: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/ai-services/openai/h...
Re: Show HN: Clippy – 90s UI for local LLMs
#259Earlier 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.
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.
> in a self ironic way to show some personality and taste and not be a cold, calculated money machine.
You posted that, and someone at Microsoft unwittingly twitched.
Re: Show HN: Clippy – 90s UI for local LLMs
#260I really love the style. I wish this sort of style had a more specific name and could be decoupled from the desktop a bit more. Would love to see a native webpage inspired by windows 2000 or similar. I've struggled to find a name for it.
Chicago style ?