diff --git a/main.cpp b/main.cpp
index dd2cc160e..2235f7b25 100644
--- a/main.cpp
+++ b/main.cpp
@@ -1004,7 +1004,12 @@ int main(int argc, char ** argv) {
             // replace end of text token with newline token when in interactive mode
             if (id == EOS_TOKEN_ID && params.interactive) {
                 id = NEWLINE_TOKEN_ID;
-                if (!antipromptv_inp.empty()) {
+                if (params.antiprompt.size() != 0) {
+                    // tokenize the reverse prompt to inject
+                    std::vector<std::vector<llama_vocab::id>> antipromptv_inp;
+                    for (auto antiprompt : params.antiprompt){
+                         antipromptv_inp.push_back(::llama_tokenize(vocab, antiprompt, false));
+                    }
                     // inject the reverse prompt to return control to the user
                     auto& ap_inp = antipromptv_inp.front();
                     embd_inp.insert(embd_inp.end(), ap_inp.begin(), ap_inp.end());