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Some years ago, a colleague literally spent all night in the office, on the 31st of March, implementing clippy for another third party commercial application (n
by alibarber 3y ago
Some years ago, a colleague literally spent all night in the office, on the 31st of March, implementing clippy for another third party commercial application (not MS Office) that was heavily used by the company and across that industry.
He inspired me to take April Fool's seriously. I've since changed industries but last year I jumped on the AI bandwagon with https://chatellite.space https://chatellite.space and this year a nod to a popular mobile game https://flappysat.space https://flappysat.space .
Functionally completely useless but they taught me a lot and made some people laugh.
- whstl 3y agoWow, I once added clippy to a website I worked on too :) It wasn't an all-nighter, though! I used clippy.js, so it was just a few lines!
- alibarber 3y agoAhh that was it, yes it was clippy.js! It was a desktop app though (with a C++ & Python API) that we had built a lot of integrations around, so there were a lot of Qt schenanigans going on, and I think he had attempted to get it to actually try and search some internal DB too for witty remarks.
- whstl 3y agoYep, adding to a non-web app is definitely harder!
- iJohnDoe 3y agoReally cool! chatellite.space
- efreak 3y ago> when it's gone it's gone Check out AI Horde, it can do text gen for free. You'd probably be wanting to do occasional generations for everything in advance, though, as it's definitely not fast enough to do this in realtime.