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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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freedomben ◴[06 May 25 17:10 UTC] No.43907398[source]▶
> 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

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snoman ◴[06 May 25 20:44 UTC] No.43909455[source]▶
Clippy was a laughing stock and target of derisive comedy for years. It has such bad brand recognition that nobody should be surprised that they aren’t using it.
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1. muzani ◴[07 May 25 04:10 UTC] No.43912189{3}[source]▶
I think it was not funny to people trying to get work done. But that generation is retired now. The current generation is the one that were typing essays in Word and were too early to steal MP3s, so they had to use Clippy as the distraction.