Help to solve this problem (AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'encode')

[Marlowgun]

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Warning: --cai-chat is deprecated. Use --chat instead.

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CUDA SETUP: Detected CUDA version 117
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Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\Oobabooga\oobabooga-windows (4)\oobabooga-windows\installer_files\env\lib\site-packages\gradio\routes.py", line 393, in run_predict
output = await app.get_blocks().process_api(
File "C:\Oobabooga\oobabooga-windows (4)\oobabooga-windows\installer_files\env\lib\site-packages\gradio\blocks.py", line 1108, in process_api
result = await self.call_function(
File "C:\Oobabooga\oobabooga-windows (4)\oobabooga-windows\installer_files\env\lib\site-packages\gradio\blocks.py", line 929, in call_function
prediction = await anyio.to_thread.run_sync(
File "C:\Oobabooga\oobabooga-windows (4)\oobabooga-windows\installer_files\env\lib\site-packages\anyio\to_thread.py", line 31, in run_sync
return await get_asynclib().run_sync_in_worker_thread(
File "C:\Oobabooga\oobabooga-windows (4)\oobabooga-windows\installer_files\env\lib\site-packages\anyio_backends_asyncio.py", line 937, in run_sync_in_worker_thread
return await future
File "C:\Oobabooga\oobabooga-windows (4)\oobabooga-windows\installer_files\env\lib\site-packages\anyio_backends_asyncio.py", line 867, in run
result = context.run(func, *args)
File "C:\Oobabooga\oobabooga-windows (4)\oobabooga-windows\installer_files\env\lib\site-packages\gradio\utils.py", line 490, in async_iteration
return next(iterator)
File "C:\Oobabooga\oobabooga-windows (4)\oobabooga-windows\text-generation-webui\modules\chat.py", line 218, in cai_chatbot_wrapper
for history in chatbot_wrapper(text, state):
File "C:\Oobabooga\oobabooga-windows (4)\oobabooga-windows\text-generation-webui\modules\chat.py", line 155, in chatbot_wrapper
for reply in generate_reply(f"{prompt}{' ' if len(cumulative_reply) > 0 else ''}{cumulative_reply}", state, eos_token=eos_token, stopping_strings=stopping_strings):
File "C:\Oobabooga\oobabooga-windows (4)\oobabooga-windows\text-generation-webui\modules\text_generation.py", line 175, in generate_reply
input_ids = encode(question, add_bos_token=state['add_bos_token'], truncation_length=get_max_prompt_length(state))
File "C:\Oobabooga\oobabooga-windows (4)\oobabooga-windows\text-generation-webui\modules\text_generation.py", line 31, in encode
input_ids = shared.tokenizer.encode(str(prompt), return_tensors='pt', add_special_tokens=add_special_tokens)
AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'encode'

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Hello everyone, I would like some help in solving this error! I am trying to use GPT-4 Alpaca through Oobabooga. What can I do to resolve this issue?

[mansyno]

i have the same error

[HelloPackets89]

I have the same error too