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Show HN: Clippy – 90s UI for local LLMs
- dehrmann 1y agoCan you add narration in Gilbert Gottfried's voice? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tu_Pzuwy-JY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tu_Pzuwy-JY
- alkh 1y agoGreat job! Having ollama support would be useful as well[1]! [1]https://github.com/ollama/ollama https://github.com/ollama/ollama
- totetsu 1y agoI thought this immediately also. I already have ollama set up to run llm tasks locally. I don't want to duplicate that but it would be fun to try this front end.
- webprofusion 1y agoMicrosoft should buy this for $3B
- Jagerbizzle 1y agoMan do I ever miss this UI design. Nice work!
- Perz1val 1y agoGo contribute to SerenityOS then!
- kuberwastaken 1y agoIs it insane that I tried to make a version of this exactly a week ago!? This is freakin awesome, congratulations!
- dbish 1y agoSince Clippy 2.0 is out in the real world now, you can pick another legend to revive. I went with AIM, replacing your AIM friends with AIs. You should do Stumbleupon with AI generated websites or bring back MSN :)
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- ale42 1y agoGreat idea and design, thanks for this! I was hoping since some time to see this :-D I hope that one day a non-Electron app (to minimize resource usage when idle) will also appear!
- talkinghead 1y agoyes yes yes!!!
- rangerelf 1y agoThis is a thing of beauty, thank you!! :-D
- tasn 1y agoI love the terrible font rendering! Is it a special font, or some CSS?
- rhet0rica 1y agoLooks like it's a special font provided by https://github.com/jdan/98.css https://github.com/jdan/98.css (Which has come a long way in the past couple of years, despite still being 0.1.x) Although there is a CSS rule for manipulating how fonts are anti-aliased, it was never standardized, and Firefox doesn't implement the vital no-smoothing option: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/font-smooth https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/font-smooth Maybe with enough retro revivals it will receive attention.
- prezjordan 1y agoI should probably 1.0 it and call it a day, it's pretty much done. In the back of my mind I've thought of making the markup more amenable to LLMs like Sonnet (maybe with tailwind style utility classes)
- nullchan 1y agoPretty sure Clippy is trademarked. Had the same idea but did not go through with it because of the TM.
- SoftTalker 1y agoTrademarks have to actually be used to remain enforceable, I think. Not sure MS could claim Clippy after all this time, not that they might not try.
- mook 1y agoThree fact that it's not a product anymore doesn't mean it's unused; a quick search says they at a minimum used it in 2021: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/blog/2021/07/08/get-nostalgic-with-new-microsoft-teams-backgrounds/ https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/blog/2021/07/0...
- SoftTalker 1y agoWow, had no idea. Like a bad penny.
- shrinks99 1y agoMicrosoft uses Clippy for the paperclip emoji in the Fluent Emoji set. The trademark is why the open source version of Fluent Emoji doesn't use Clippy's likeness.
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- muwtyhg 1y agoThe character is actually named Clippit. Although maybe MS trademarked Clippy after it became the more common name.
- maxwell 1y agoCorrect. https://tsdr.uspto.gov/#caseNumber=90782096&caseSearchType=US_APPLICATION&caseType=DEFAULT&searchType=statusSearch https://tsdr.uspto.gov/#caseNumber=90782096&caseSearchType=U...
- basketbla 1y agoPretty fantastic follow-up to https://www.latent.space/p/clippy-v-anton https://www.latent.space/p/clippy-v-anton
- _pdp_ 1y agoSuper cool. Serious 90s vibes. I also tried to make a super clippy here. https://chatbotkit.com/examples/super-clippy https://chatbotkit.com/examples/super-clippy I think I match the color shema perfectly but does not have the same feeling as the original.
- rafram 1y agoThis 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 the maximum disk space available on a Windows 95 FAT16 volume.
- anaisbetts 1y agoSo to be clear, your complaint is that the nostalgia Clippy app that puts a cartoon paper clip on your desktop, isn't efficient enough?
- rafram 1y agoI 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?
- criddell 1y agoMaybe it was vibe coded and the libraries were added while going down paths that turned out to be dead ends and the LLM never cleaned up after itself?
- coder543 1y agoPeople have been perfectly capable of making that mistake themselves since long before "vibe coding" existed.
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- Aardwolf 1y agoIt's weird that when clippy was new I found it to be everything that's wrong with UI design, and today I'm nostalgic for it
- oneeyedpigeon 1y agoNah, it's not weird. You said it yourself: nostalgia. It's human nature to romanticise the past. I bet you would hate it again if you used it today.
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- raydiak 1y agoYou 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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- mkgeorge7 1y agoQuestion for the devs in here...something I've been thinking about a lot recently. So I see that OP linked out to a public github repo...but when downloading the actual bundle, what's a quick way for me to determine that what I'm installing on my mac is actually the same as what's in the public repo? It's always seemed like a loophole to me ready for (potential) exploitation. >> Ship project. >> Link out Github repo on the static site somewhere >> Gain trust instantly as users presume the public repo is what's used behind the scenes Disclaimer: I'm a web dev and don't know a single thing about native MacOS software
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- dec0dedab0de 1y agoyou don't, that is what reproducible builds are trying to solve, but even then it would still need someone to compile and check. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reproducible_builds https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reproducible_builds
- felixrieseberg 1y agoYeah, reproducible builds would be fantastic. I sign my binaries on macOS with Apple codesign and notarize - and with Microsoft's Azure trusted signing for Windows. Both operating systems will actually show you a lot of warning dialogs before running anything unsigned. It's far from perfect - but I do wish we'd get more into the habit of signing binaries, even if open source.
- GuinansEyebrows 1y agoBonziBuddy next?
- roskelld 1y agoFollowed by Tiny Elvis? https://somethingorotherwhatever.com/tiny-elvis/ https://somethingorotherwhatever.com/tiny-elvis/
- givemeethekeys 1y agoLike phoenix, it rises from the ashes..
- ayaros 1y agoI love your website design.
- aligundogdu 1y agoThis is such an amazing piece of work — truly impressive! Hats off to you If it supports Ollama and local LLMs too, it'll be absolutely unbeatable!
- jl6 1y agoIIRC 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 easier way to do what you’re doing”. I don’t think the necessary trust exists yet to do this using public LLM APIs, nor does the hardware to do it locally, but crack either of those and I could see ClipGPT being genuinely useful.
- vunderba 1y agoWe 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.
- nrmitchi 1y ago> 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. Of the technical, hang-out-on-HN crowd? Ya, probably not many. Of the other 99.99% of computer users? The majority of them wouldn't even think about it, let alone care. To quote a phrase, ”the user is going to pick dancing pigs over security every time”. Even without the non-chalent attitude towards security, the majority of the population has been so conditioned that everything they do on a computer is already being sent to 1) Apple, 2) Google, 3) Microsoft, or 4) their employer, that they're burnt-out of caring. All that is to say that if you can make a widely-available real-time LLM assistant that appeals to non-technical users, please invite me to your private-island-celebrity-filled-yacht-parties.
- walrus01 1y agoI think we're well into the paradigm of "hidden employee activity monitoring software" already taking periodic screenshots and sending it to an LLM somewhere, which then generates aggregate performance metrics and dashboards for managers. I've heard of multiple companies working on this for $bigcorp environments, customer service/call center workstation PCs, etc.
- ChrisArchitect 1y agoNext up, "Rover" the dog from Microsoft Bob https://fabulous.systems/posts/2024/06/if-i-ever-get-a-dog-ill-name-it-rover-ms-bob-retrospective/ https://fabulous.systems/posts/2024/06/if-i-ever-get-a-dog-i...
- Tempest1981 1y agoI was more a fan of "The Dot", especially when it morphed into a Picasso face: https://youtube.com/watch?v=6umxhkdKzSY&t=79s https://youtube.com/watch?v=6umxhkdKzSY&t=79s
- tzury 1y agoThis is a clear case of "Build Something People Want". After all it was requested almost daily over at x.com https://x.com/search?q=ai%20bring%20clippy%20back&src=typed_query&f=live https://x.com/search?q=ai%20bring%20clippy%20back&src=typed_...
- xyc 1y agoActually this is a good way to find product ideas. I placed a query in Grok to find posts about what people want, similar to this. Then it performs multiple searches on X including embedding search, and suggested people want stuff like tamagotchi, ICQ etc. back.
- drilbo 1y agoI feel like these are all great examples of things people think they want. Making a post about it is one thing, actually buying or using a product, I think the majority of nostalgic people will quickly remember why they don't actually want it in their adult life.
- worldsayshi 1y agoYeah this is not even faster horses. It's horses that can count like Clever Hans.
- npunt 1y agoI see this a lot in vintage computing. What we want is the feelings we had back then, the context, the growing possibilities, youth, the 90s, whatever. What we get is a semi-working physical object that we can never quite fix enough to relive those experiences. But we keep acquiring and fixing and tinkering anyway hoping this time will be different while our hearts become torn between past and present.
- ummonk 1y agoAwesome! Now I just want Perplexity to acquire the AskJeeves brand.
- 0points 1y agoWill this properly interrupt me in the middle of flow and ask unrelated questions, or is it just another clippy knock-off?
- dr_kiszonka 1y agoFunny. But you know, with multimodal models perhaps someone will finally crack when it is appropriate to interrupt someone with a relevant suggestion. I think I would like a personal assistant that would be able to say, "Hey, you have been debugging this one function for 5 hours and you still have 3 more to fix by EOB. Would it make sense to pause for a bit and see if other fixes could be done quickly?"
- mrandish 1y agoGreat 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 least acknowledged their behavior and owned it (with a sly wink), I'd hate it a little less. I might even be up for a "Clippy is my CoPilot" sticker on my laptop (calling back to the old 80s "Jesus is my Copilot" bumper stickers).
- freedomben 1y ago> I'm kind of shocked Microsoft didn't already do this as an alt version of their CoPilot UI. Seriously! This makes me think nobody at Microsoft with the authority to approve something like that has a sense of humor and/or good business sense. The nostalgia would be enormous. Hell I'm a linux person now and I'd install Clippy if it supported Fedora
- sigmaisaletter 1y agoIt looks like you're talking about a cartoon assistant character. Would you like help? ICYDN: The proper name of Clippy is actually "Clippit", as introduced in Office 97.
- artursapek 1y agoI thought Clippy first shipped in XP
- layer8 1y agoYou may be mixing it up with the explorer search dog. Whose name was Rover, apparently.
- artursapek 1y agoaw he was so cute
- mig39 1y agoNope, I remember it in Office 97. Which was released in 1996, of course.
- aaroninsf 1y ago"...they didn't stop to think if they should.”
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- _-_-__-_-_- 1y agoWow. The ease-of-use is insanely good. I haven't figured out yet how to move clippy to a different location on the screen (rather than centred), but it works well. I have multiple models downloaded and am chatting already!
- siryeetey 1y agoclick and drag on the bottom right corner of clippy to drag
- batch12 1y agoMakes me think of this short story. https://gwern.net/fiction/clippy https://gwern.net/fiction/clippy
- elia_42 1y agoReally interesting project. I love the combination of LLM with a 90s aesthetic. Great that it works with a really simple configuration and runs offline
- DigiEggz 1y agoAccept my deepest gratitudes for creating this functional art. Love the idea and execution and can't wait to use it!
- dismalaf 1y agoClippy was peak Windows. Everything went downhill since...
- breppp 1y agoThey definitely missed on using underlines for headings
- rileytg 1y agoI recently did this in our main system that we recently added an LLM feature to (for fun internally, not sending to prod) using https://github.com/pi0/clippyjs https://github.com/pi0/clippyjs
- hnlmorg 1y agoOne of my very first AI projects was in the late 90s and used the Microsoft Agent API (which Clippy uses) as the interface. It used Merlin rather than Clippy and was extremely basic as AI. But it was a fun project.
- UncleNoob 1y agoI’m waiting for BonziBuddy AI
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- Telemakhos 1y agoI can't get this to work on my aging 2017 Intel work mac. > Error: Error invoking remote method 'ELECTRON_LLM_CREATE': Error: Error: NoBinaryFoundError
- felixrieseberg 1y agoAh, shoot, I had an error in my build script. That's now fixed! https://github.com/felixrieseberg/clippy/releases/tag/v0.4.1 https://github.com/felixrieseberg/clippy/releases/tag/v0.4.1
- Telemakhos 1y agoUpgraded, 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
- AvAn12 1y agoAny love for the other avatars? Power Pup? I think there were a few… Otherwise, thanks, this is great.
- aussieguy1234 1y agoRevenge of the paperclips
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- margorczynski 1y ago"I can fix him"
- raydiak 1y agoI'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.
- ants_everywhere 1y agois it possible you're not the target audience?
- raydiak 1y agoWhich part of my original comment made that a question worth asking? Thought I had already expressed that fairly clearly.
- mrandish 1y ago> I'd rather be hunted by a Boston Dynamics robot than have to face Clippy on my screen every day. This is the first AI thing I've actually bothered to install on my computer. Until today, despite being a technologist, I've only played with AIs via browser. I think AIs are interesting and can be useful but, having retired early, I'm not writing code or work emails so there hasn't been any compelling need. I've thought about installing a local LLM to just play around with, but I have a long list of other things to play with (pinball machines, music making, photography, vintage video games) and AI just never got to the top of the list. I think I was also resistant because chat interfaces tend to be so annoying. I hate it when they LARP being a human. Giving a chat agent a retro 90s UX that's legendary for being annoying and clueless just seems so... on message, I thought "Yeah, I can probably not hate using this..."
- novaRom 1y agoFinally 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?
- SLWW 1y agoWhen do we get the BonziBuddy reskin?
- mbowcut2 1y agoPack it up boys, they finally made the killer app.
- ants_everywhere 1y agoFun 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.
- lawlessone 1y ago>And now I wonder if Clippy makes Bill Gates sad since the divorce I doubt he thinks about clippy much at all.
- maybelsyrup 1y ago> I doubt he thinks about clippy much at all Guys I think I found Bill’s HN handle
- pantulis 1y agoOr Melinda.
- amelius 1y agoDo this one next: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BonziBuddy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BonziBuddy
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- rukuu001 1y agoIt was great / depressing to mention Clippy at a recent meetup and see the generational divide between those who groaned and everyone who looked confused.
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- byearthithatius 1y agoFun fact: the newest generation (such as myself, a 23 year old programmer) were actually not even alive when Clippy existed. I only know of it from an Office reference. One day I will have something like that -- maybe MSN or internet explorer?
- lolinder 1y agoIt's not quite that bad! The last version of Office released with Clippy was in May 2003! So you would have been born, if only just.
- byearthithatius 1y agoYeah I was a tiny little two year old:) Definitely wasn't coding yet hahaha
- gus_massa 1y agoMy old daughter loved the cat https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ykGIcXKAXbI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ykGIcXKAXbI Not everybody updates Office on the day the new version is released, so they continue living for a long time.
- rerdavies 1y agoI still haven't gotten over the trauma of Clippy 1.0.
- Hadriel 1y agoFeedback: I think it would be very helpful for users to know ahead of time what kinda performance they can expect based on their system.
- amiantos 1y agoa very basic app getting a bunch of undue attention thanks to nostalgia for someone else's IP, classic
- urbandw311er 1y agoYou almost sound bitter about it
- amiantos 1y agoand...? it does not change the fact that this "app" would get 0 attention if it wasn't using nostalgic IP that does not belong to the developer. their are undoubtedly better, more original apps being posted to HN right now that likely deserve the attention more, but they're not using stolen IP to get attention, so they don't.
- gitroom 1y agoMan, brings back memories I didnt even think I still hadClippy was kinda ridiculous back then but Id 100% mess with this now tbh.
- mountainriver 1y agoAmazing, we also have CowPilot now https://github.com/agentsea/cowpilot https://github.com/agentsea/cowpilot
- surfingdino 1y agoAnd I want a DogCowPilot! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dogcow https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dogcow
- mountainriver 1y agoChallenge accepted
- daviding 1y agoA nice addition (unless I missed it) would be to add an existing API key for remote model access?
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- endlessvoid94 1y agoLove it. On macOS it always launches in the middle of the screen - is there a way to move it around?
- cbhl 1y agoTo move clippy you want to drag the piece of paper on which clippy sits -- clicking clippy himself will hide and show the chat window.
- willejs 1y agoCan this keep popping up, interrupt you, and have the most annoying voice ever added please?
- unethical_ban 1y agoI couldn't find how to get back to the normal chat screen from settings easily, and loading the same model file that works in LM studio crashed my computer. I like the idea, though.
- danielhanchen 1y agoWow fantastic website!! Love the Windows old aesthetic!
- omneity 1y agoThe idea is great but its personality needs some more sass. And maybe some contextual cues just so that it does the exact opposite of what would have been most helpful then :) I feel like a text editor + clippy would be an even more potent combo! After all, that was clippy's original context.
- rockemsockem 1y agoAt last! I've heard it mentioned so many times and have done so myself, but you went and made it. Kudos and thank you!!!
- dopple 1y agoThis is so great! I wrote a short blog post about how well this fits into my Windows 95-inspired bootc project Blue95: https://blues.win/posts/chatting-with-ai-like-its-1995 https://blues.win/posts/chatting-with-ai-like-its-1995
- cocodill 1y agooh yes, sure, It's not just an another useless shitty electron app, it's object of art. yeah.
- hosh 1y agoI wondered when someone was going to power Clippy with an LLM.
- rolph 1y agoi think badgey may reflect the situation better than clippy. https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Badgey https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Badgey
- davidmurphy 1y agoawesome. I shared this with colleagues at the Computer History Museum!!
- awesome_dude 1y agoWe've all been thinking it :)
- quantum_state 1y agoquite cute
- sen 1y agoI love this, and will unironically use it as a little desktop LLM, but it seems to completely ignore the prompt that’s in the settings. No matter what model I install it’s just “being” the default model. The general idea is awesome though, and a lot more fun than just having a quake-terminal to interface with local LLMs via ollama.
- shmerl 1y agoWhat about Skippy?
- andwrobs 1y agoFlawless execution, all the details are sharp. That's fun.
- ninetyninenine 1y agoClippy was ahead of it's time. We all had no idea.
- uptownfunk 1y agoHahah I would Love to see this thing back in windows. The only thing I use now is ms teams since they killed Skype and my foreign music teacher requires us to use it
- insane_dreamer 1y agoDoes it pop up every time you open your IDE, with "It looks like you're about to start coding. What can I help you with?"
- alanh 1y agoThat’s great! ... Where are the downloaded models so I can delete them or at least exclude them from Time Machine backups? (Mac)
- integricho 1y agogiven it's targeted look, why isn't it an actual native app?
- patrick4urcloud 1y agonice ! This time it's working better than the original.
- King-Aaron 1y agoNeeds a Bonzai Buddy to go with it!
- devilsbabe 1y agoVery cool project! It would be really nice to have support for the other assistants that Microsoft released to use in place of Clippy (I'm particularly fond of the dolphin that was used in the Japanese version of Windows) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_Assistant#Assistants https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_Assistant#Assistants
- tungolcild 1y agoFinally!
- quaintdev 1y agoThat's a ghost of Clippy. It's not reacting at all!
- TanYuho 1y agoThis app is so much fun—it really brings back memories of when I used Windows 98 as a kid.
- unixhero 1y agoHow do I use it as a frontend for a locally hosted llm? I have a 3090gtx, but never actually run/hosted any locally. Cheers
- codebolt 1y agoOn 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.
- thunfischtoast 1y agono front, but your comment reads a little bit like it was written by an LLM trying to push usage of LLMs^^
- codebolt 1y agoMaybe I've been chatting with them so much I'm starting to sound like one myself.
- tommica 1y agoWould love to have a mac shortcut to toggle clippy chat window, and also so that when the chat window gets opened, the chatbox gets focuses automatically
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- timvdalen 1y agoI honestly might keep this running just to have clippy always on top, without using the chat at all...
- jeroenhd 1y agoOne underused Clippy feature is the fact that Clippy and all the other Agents (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Agent 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.
- nonethewiser 1y agoThat has a lot of potential. Give it a normal demeanor that progressively gets more aggressive and hostile towards the user.
- makapuf 1y agoSynergies with a useful assistant for code seem relevant : https://vigor.sourceforge.net/ https://vigor.sourceforge.net/
- akx 1y agohttps://github.com/pi0/clippyjs https://github.com/pi0/clippyjs exists...
- mananaysiempre 1y ago> 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/microsoftagentsoftwaredevelopmentkit 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 https://archive.org/details/clippitMS (Was the WinXP search dog also an Agent character? I never guessed that for some reason.)
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- sachahjkl 1y ago"made with Electron" bruh cmon
- GTP 1y agoDecades later, you made a version of Clippy that might actually be useful. Congratulations!
- dhruv3006 1y agoThis is so cute!
- nonethewiser 1y agoI 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.
- ciaranmca 1y agoNice project! Looks good and seems like something I’d genuinely want to use day to day.
- tootyskooty 1y agoReally cool! I think OS integration can be taken a lot further. Looking forward to seeing more of this esp. as models get better! First thing that comes to mind are generative GTK widgets; small purpose-built widgets for any task, styled to match your setup.
- elzbardico 1y agoAm I the only one who thinks that albeit ugly, this is way more readable than the usual web-app styled chat interfaces?
- okokwhatever 1y agoagree
- chenster 1y agoCan it run Deepseek?
- badmonster 1y agothat's cute
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- xbartu 1y agoSuch a great theme, I missed it. I don't see ollama support tho :(