You might be wondering: What’s the point of all this? Why? Clippy is basically art. Don’t get me wrong, I don’t think that this little app is all that magnificent or something that belongs in a museum, I mean “art” in the sense that I’ve made it like other people do watercolors or pottery - I made it because building it was fun for me. If you get as little as a small chuckle out of it, I’m happy to hear it.
Acknowledgments
I am so grateful to Microsoft - not only for everything they've done for Electron, but also for giving us one of the most iconic characters and designs of computing history.
- The entire Electron team for continuing to be wonderful people to build open source with
- Kevan Atteberry for Clippy
- Jordan Scales (@jdan) for the Windows 98 design
- Pooya Parsa (@pi0) for being the (as far as I know) person to extract the length of each frame from the Clippy spritesheet.
- node-llama-cpp for squeezing llama.cpp into Node.js
Clippy lets you run a variety of large language models locally on your computer while sticking with a user interface of the 1990s.
- Simple, familiar, and classic chat interface.
- Batteries included: No complicated setup.
- Custom models, prompts, and parameters.
- Offline, local, free.
This app is not affiliated with Microsoft. It's just for fun nostalgia!



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