Cannot use chat template functions because tokenizer.chat_template is not set

[John6666]

Aside from the solution, I think the problem is probably this…

Chat_template is not set & throwing error

When I am running the sample code from here: tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained("facebook/blenderbot-400M-distill") chat = [ {"role": "user", "content": "Hello, how are you?"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "I'm doing great. How can I help you today?"}, {"role": "user", "content": "I'd like to show off how chat templating works!"}, ] tokenizer.apply_chat_template(chat, tokenize=False) I get the error message: ValueError: Cannot use apply_chat_template() because tokenizer.…