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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
#102IIRC 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…
Microsoft infamously is adding AI to Windows to constantly watch your screen and people understandably are not super excited for it.
Re: Show HN: Clippy – 90s UI for local LLMs
#103I'm all for these prepackaged local-only AI projects. Much more my speed than corporate cloud services. Real shame this one went down the path of choosing an embodiment that makes me want to shoot holes in my screen. It's even worse than those pixel art cats that chase my cursor on certain blogs. I miss plenty of things about the 90s, but I seriously doubt I'll live long enough to forget how much Clippy is not one of those things. Clippy would be more suitable for a horror game than an assistant. Going out of their way in the README to profusely thank Microsoft for summoning that hellspawn is just icing on the cake.
I hate to put down anyone's open source hobby project, and the guy looks so friendly and happy in his picture. But my honest reaction is fear of what further nightmares people are going to start animating with AI. I'd rather be hunted by a Boston Dynamics robot than have to face Clippy on my screen every day. Might as well add Rover from Microsoft Bob, some blink/marquee tags, a MIDI file playing in the background, and a minigame about diagnosing DMA conflicts in mixed plug and play and non-PnP systems. Some parts of the 90s should stay in the 90s.
Re: Show HN: Clippy – 90s UI for local LLMs
#104Great 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…
Just had ChatGPT make this: https://ibb.co/pB4SPJBW
Re: Show HN: Clippy – 90s UI for local LLMs
#105I'm all for these prepackaged local-only AI projects. Much more my speed than corporate cloud services. Real shame this one went down the path of choosing an embodiment that makes me want to shoot holes in my screen. It's even worse than those pixel art cats that chase my cursor on certain blogs. I miss plenty of things about the 90s, but I seriously doubt I'll live long enough to forget how much Clippy is not one of…
is it possible you're not the target audience?
Re: Show HN: Clippy – 90s UI for local LLMs
#106Finally a useful UI for llama.cpp!
Thank you Felix! This is extremely cool! Can you please make a short blog post explaining how is it technically implemented?
Re: Show HN: Clippy – 90s UI for local LLMs
#107When do we get the BonziBuddy reskin?
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#108Pack it up boys, they finally made the killer app.
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Re: Show HN: Clippy – 90s UI for local LLMs
#110Fun fact: clippy came from Microsoft Bob, which Melinda Gates was the marketing manager for.
I have often wondered what role their relationship played in keeping Clippy around. And now I wonder if Clippy makes Bill Gates sad since the divorce.