Initial Space setup

app.py

@@ -34,14 +34,13 @@ SYSTEM_PROMPT = (
 )
 
 def respond(query):
-    # 5) Compose full prompt
+    # Build the prompt correctly by concatenating
     prompt = (
         SYSTEM_PROMPT
-        f"question: {query}\n"
-        "answer:"
+        + f"question: {query}\n"
+        + "answer:"
     )
 
-    # 6) Generate
     out = chatbot(
         prompt,
         max_new_tokens=128,
@@ -51,18 +50,19 @@ def respond(query):
         pad_token_id=tokenizer.eos_token_id
     )[0]["generated_text"]
 
-    # 7) Strip off everything up through our "answer:" token
+    # Strip off the “answer:” prefix
     if "answer:" in out:
         reply = out.split("answer:", 1)[1].strip()
     else:
         reply = out.strip()
 
-    # 8) Fallback: if the model didn’t produce anything substantial
+    # Fallback for unknowns
     if len(reply) < 15 or "don't know" in reply.lower() or "sorry" in reply.lower():
         return "Sorry, I don’t have that info—please contact [email protected]."
 
     return reply
 
+
 # 9) Gradio UI
 with gr.Blocks() as demo:
     gr.Markdown("# 🤖 BayEdger FAQ Chatbot")