Update app.py

app.py

@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ API_URL = "https://api-inference.huggingface.co/models/"
 client = InferenceClient(
     "mistralai/Mistral-7B-Instruct-v0.1"
 )
+
 initial_prompt = "Hi there BibleAI"
 
 def format_prompt(message, history):
@@ -34,9 +35,6 @@ def generate(prompt, history, temperature=0.9, max_new_tokens=2048, top_p=0.95,
 
     formatted_prompt = format_prompt(prompt, history)
 
-    if not formatted_prompt:
-        formatted_prompt = format_prompt(initial_prompt, [])
-
     stream = client.text_generation(formatted_prompt, **generate_kwargs, stream=True, details=True, return_full_text=False)
     output = ""
 
@@ -95,6 +93,7 @@ customCSS = """
 with gr.Blocks(theme=gr.themes.Soft()) as demo:
     gr.ChatInterface(
         generate,
+        inputs=[gr.Textbox("User", default=initial_prompt)],
         additional_inputs=additional_inputs,
     )