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

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Post by mananaysiempre »

jeroenhd wrote: post #246

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…

> I would love for someone to dig up an old copy of the agent SDK (I couldn't find it myself)

https://archive.org/details/microsoftagentsoftwaredevelopmen...

> and hook up ChatGPT to the real, actual Clippy.

The actual character of Clippy was not included with the Agent SDK (unlike some other options available in Office, like the Wizard), so you’d have to dig it out of an actual copy of Office, or get it from someone who already did so:

https://archive.org/details/clippitMS

(Was the WinXP search dog also an Agent character? I never guessed that for some reason.)

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

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Post by surfingdino »

jeroenhd wrote: post #246

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…

Great idea. While someone's at it, could they please hook it up to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_MultiPoint_Mouse for that extra bit of madness?

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

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Post by minkeymaniac »

jeroenhd wrote: post #246

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…

I actually used one of these in a VB app back in the day as a joke.. it was the robot I used.. if you typed in something wrong in a a text box.. it would shake his arms and call you an idiot

fun times

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

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Post by alt227 »

taneq wrote: post #266
alt227 wrote: post #238

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That, wordart, and the secret flight sim in Excel 97 were the entirety of how I spent my school days.

What, no Encarta? :P

We did not have encarta at our school, that was for the rich kids.

However I have great memories of playing the sample of 'Changes' by David Bowie when I got a bit older and had access to a copy.

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

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Post by Telemakhos »

felixrieseberg wrote: post #171
Telemakhos wrote: post #95

I can't get this to work on my aging 2017 Intel work mac. > Error: Error invoking remote method 'ELECTRON_LLM_CREATE': Error: Error: NoBinaryFoundError

Ah, shoot, I had an error in my build script. That's now fixed! https://github.com/felixrieseberg/clippy/releases/tag/v0.4.1

Upgraded, but still no joy.

> Sadly, Clippy failed to successfully load the model. This could be an issue with Clippy itself, the selected model, or your system. You can report this error at github.com/felixrieseberg/clippy/issues. The error was:

> Error: Error invoking remote method 'ELECTRON_LLM_CREATE': Error: Error: NoBinaryFoundError

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