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) " Hello, how are you? I'm doing great. How can I help you today? I'd like to show off how chat templating works!" Notice how the entire chat is condensed into a single string. If we use tokenize=True, which is the default setting, that string will also be tokenized for us.