Makes me think of this short story.
Show HN: Clippy – 90s UI for local LLMs
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#72Great 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…
There's a lot of missed opportunities out there. For example, AskJeeves is still just a vanilla search engine (Google front-end).
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#73Really interesting project. I love the combination of LLM with a 90s aesthetic. Great that it works with a really simple configuration and runs offline
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#74Accept my deepest gratitudes for creating this functional art. Love the idea and execution and can't wait to use it!
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#75Clippy was peak Windows. Everything went downhill since...
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#76They definitely missed on using underlines for headings
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#77Great 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…
Customers I build AI chat features for also liken it to clippy. I think it’s a very common association.
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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 site's subject matter and target audience. Genuine question: why do you feel that this warning is appropriate here but not the dozens of other solo github projects that make it to the HN front page every week?
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#79This is cool, but does no one even look at what libraries they're shipping anymore? I mean, why does this Clippy-style LLM interface bundle: - A JavaScript implementation of the Jinja templating language - A full GitHub API client - A library that takes a string and tells you if it's a valid npm package name - A useless shim for the JavaScript Math module And 119 other libraries? This thing would have taken up 10% of…
So to be clear, your complaint is that the nostalgia Clippy app that puts a cartoon paper clip on your desktop, isn't efficient enough?
I think it’s legitimate to ask why these dependencies are necessary. LLMs have created whole new classes of vulnerabilities, and things like a GitHub client (which downloads arbitrary data/code) and a templating engine (which executes it) expose an even larger attack surface.
If someone’s going to get RCE on my machine, I don’t want it to be through the silly Clippy LLM UI, you know?
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#80I recently did this in our main system that we recently added an LLM feature to (for fun internally, not sending to prod) using