diff --git a/chat.cpp b/chat.cpp
index 6d84af20d..596a806d3 100644
--- a/chat.cpp
+++ b/chat.cpp
@@ -815,9 +815,9 @@ int main(int argc, char ** argv) {
     fprintf(stderr, "%s: seed = %d\n", __func__, params.seed);
 
     std::mt19937 rng(params.seed);
-    if (params.prompt.empty()) {
-        params.prompt = gpt_random_prompt(rng);
-    }
+    // if (params.prompt.empty()) {
+    //     params.prompt = gpt_random_prompt(rng);
+    // }
 
 //    params.prompt = R"(// this function checks if the number n is prime
 //bool is_prime(int n) {)";
@@ -853,7 +853,7 @@ int main(int argc, char ** argv) {
     std::vector<float> logits;
 
     // Add a space in front of the first character to match OG llama tokenizer behavior
-    params.prompt.insert(0, 1, ' ');
+    // params.prompt.insert(0, 1, ' ');
     // tokenize the prompt
     std::vector<gpt_vocab::id> embd_inp;// = ::llama_tokenize(vocab, params.prompt, true);