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Show HN: Clippy – 90s UI for local LLMs

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1122 points felixrieseberg | 1 comments | 06 May 25 15:02 UTC | HN request time: 0s | 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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pragma_x ◴[06 May 25 17:18 UTC] No.43907479[source]▶
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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1. ComplexSystems ◴[06 May 25 19:42 UTC] No.43908866{3}[source]▶
That kind of sucks, because there's AI LLM's just about everywhere else now. Even those customer service "live chat" windows are typically AI first. What are Ask Jeeves doing?