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Show HN: Clippy – 90s UI for local LLMs

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1122 points felixrieseberg | 5 comments | 06 May 25 15:02 UTC | HN request time: 1.435s | source
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mrandish ◴[06 May 25 16:53 UTC] No.43907199[source]▶
Great 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).

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1. teaearlgraycold ◴[06 May 25 17:29 UTC] No.43907590[source]▶
Customers I build AI chat features for also liken it to clippy. I think it’s a very common association.
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2. dylan604 ◴[06 May 25 18:04 UTC] No.43907945[source]▶
I hope you accept that likening how it is intended, and I can't imagine that being a good thing. Clippy was universally panned. To me, I wouldn't be telling people that the thing I'm spending time working on was received as this generation's Clippy.
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3. Levitz ◴[06 May 25 20:23 UTC] No.43909259[source]▶
Clippy was panned because it was intrusive and offered very little real help, but the design and concept themselves were always popular.
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4. dylan604 ◴[06 May 25 21:14 UTC] No.43909728{3}[source]▶
you just described modern LLM bots as well
5. teaearlgraycold ◴[07 May 25 00:46 UTC] No.43911140[source]▶
When talking with them I was surprised because they seemed to be invoking his name positively.