# Chat Templates for BlenderBot
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**Author:**  [@bogolese](/static-proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdiscuss.huggingface.co%2Fu%2Fbogolese)%5C
**Post date:** [October 11, 2023, 2:56pm UTC](/static-proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdiscuss.huggingface.co%2Ft%2Fchat-templates-for-blenderbot%2F58184%2F1 "2023-10-11T14:56:57Z")
I have installed transformers==4.34.0, tokenizers=0.14.1, and huggingface\_hub=0.18.0 on Ubuntu 20 and I am trying to run the bog standard sample chat templates code from [Templates for Chat Models](https://huggingface.co/docs/transformers/main/en/chat_templating) under PyCharm. The error I consistently get is:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File ā/usr/local/lib/python3.8/dist-packages/IPython/core/interactiveshell.pyā, line 3433, in run\_code
exec(code\_obj, self.user\_global\_ns, self.user\_ns)
File āā, line 10, in
tokenizer.apply\_chat\_template(chat, tokenize=False)
AttributeError: āBlenderbotTokenizerFastā object has no attribute āapply\_chat\_templateā
I need clues! š
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**Author:**  [@Elciccio](/static-proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdiscuss.huggingface.co%2Fu%2FElciccio)%5C
**Post date:** [October 11, 2023, 3:10pm UTC](/static-proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdiscuss.huggingface.co%2Ft%2Fchat-templates-for-blenderbot%2F58184%2F2 "2023-10-11T15:10:58Z")
I generally solve this type of problem by asking chat-gpt. Just past your full code there and then add to the prompt the complete error (specifying the line) and ask for the correct code.
Donāt be afraid to ask if you have any problems.
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**Author:**  [@bogolese](/static-proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdiscuss.huggingface.co%2Fu%2Fbogolese)%5C
**Post date:** [October 11, 2023, 6:50pm UTC](/static-proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdiscuss.huggingface.co%2Ft%2Fchat-templates-for-blenderbot%2F58184%2F3 "2023-10-11T18:50:38Z")
Thanks, but this is not a syntax issue. It is an object model issue. Clearly there is an install dependency problem.
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**Author:**  [@hitarush](/static-proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdiscuss.huggingface.co%2Fu%2Fhitarush)%5C
**Post date:** [July 3, 2024, 12:05am UTC](/static-proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdiscuss.huggingface.co%2Ft%2Fchat-templates-for-blenderbot%2F58184%2F4 "2024-07-03T00:05:37Z")
Hi, @bogolese, Did you manage to fix this dependancy issue?
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**Author:**  [@nielsr](/static-proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdiscuss.huggingface.co%2Fu%2Fnielsr)%5C
**Post date:** [September 2, 2024, 8:38am UTC](/static-proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdiscuss.huggingface.co%2Ft%2Fchat-templates-for-blenderbot%2F58184%2F5 "2024-09-02T08:38:28Z")
Hi,
Blenderbot does not have a chat template set (thereās no āchat\_templateā attribute in the tokenizer\_config.json). Weāre going to update the docs to mention another model. cc @Rocketknight1
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**Author:**  [@nielsr](/static-proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdiscuss.huggingface.co%2Fu%2Fnielsr)%5C
**Post date:** [September 2, 2024, 8:54am UTC](/static-proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdiscuss.huggingface.co%2Ft%2Fchat-templates-for-blenderbot%2F58184%2F6 "2024-09-02T08:54:55Z")
Opened an issue here: [ValueError: Cannot use apply\_chat\_template() because tokenizer.chat\_template is not set Ā· Issue #33246 Ā· huggingface/transformers Ā· GitHub](https://github.com/huggingface/transformers/issues/33246)
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**Author:**  [@system](/static-proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdiscuss.huggingface.co%2Fu%2Fsystem)%5C
**Post date:** [August 25, 2025, 4:11pm UTC](/static-proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdiscuss.huggingface.co%2Ft%2Fchat-templates-for-blenderbot%2F58184%2F7 "2025-08-25T16:11:42Z")
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