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Show HN: Clippy – 90s UI for local LLMs

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jeroenhd ◴[07 May 25 09:03 UTC] No.43913564[source]▶
One underused Clippy feature is the fact that Clippy and all the other Agents (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.

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1. mananaysiempre ◴[07 May 25 12:20 UTC] No.43914726[source]▶
> 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/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

(Was the WinXP search dog also an Agent character? I never guessed that for some reason.)