[HN Gopher] The Twisted Life of Clippy ___________________________________________________________________ The Twisted Life of Clippy Author : CharlesW Score : 50 points Date : 2022-09-10 17:35 UTC (1 days ago) (HTM) web link (www.seattlemet.com) (TXT) w3m dump (www.seattlemet.com) | [deleted] | throwaway9870 wrote: | I knew Cliff and Byron at Stanford. Despite the reputation of | Clippy, they were two wonderful, talented and amazingly smart | people. | dehrmann wrote: | Friendly reminder: always read Clippy in Gilbert Gottfried's | voice: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tu_Pzuwy-JY | mikehar wrote: | Great article, it got a lot of it right. I worked on Bob and Bob | 2. Yes, there was a Bob v2, but for some reason it got canceled. | -\\_(tsu)_/- | Mezzie wrote: | Because they knew that it would be too powerful, too ahead of | its time. We all would have wept at the beauty and been unable | to continue on in our meagre existences if Bob v2 came into | being. | londons_explore wrote: | I suspect with new AI chatbots we're getting close to the level | of tech to be able to remake clippy and make him _actually | useful_ this time... | | Things like "Hi Clippy, I wrote a draft of this brochure, but can | you pad it out and send it out with a customized intro to all | promising looking leads in salesforce?" | fortran77 wrote: | It's not clippy, but Microsoft has added "suggested styling" to | Powerpoint, and I let it re-layout my pages, and the results | are beautiful. It sees your page and suggests a layout, which | you can choose to accept. | | It's explained badly here, but it works well: | | https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/create-profession... | | I think there is room for a good "AI" companion that runs when | you're in Word, or Powerpoint. (Maybe not Excel.) | MereInterest wrote: | Microsoft has also added "suggested phrasing", which | prioritizes concision even when it removes deliberately | inserted uncertainty. In some cases, following its | suggestions wouldn't even have resulted in coherent | sentences. For a sentence of the form "Do $X, unless $VAR is | true." had the recommend replacement "Do $X, unless $VAR.". | [deleted] | HeckFeck wrote: | I never understood the hatred of Clippy. Certainly seems to be | from an age where a whimsical touch was allowed in software, | nowadays there just seems to be either stern cynicism or forced | chuminess in its place. | | Then again I was aged below ten when I first played with Office | 97. | makapuf wrote: | Of course, everyone here knows where "cargo clippy" come from. | But do you know vigor ( http://vigor.sourceforge.net/ )? ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2022-09-11 23:00 UTC)