I have an app that is (presently) designed to be a ChatGPT clone using st.chat_input and st.chat_message. It has a dropdown of predefined prompts that the user could choose from, and once they select one from the dropdown, the prompt would go into the chat_input box automatically as if the user type…

Hi, You can use st.form() and add a Submit button. This would allow the LLM generated response to occur only after the initial prompt is selected and the Submit button is clicked. You could also use the disabled parameter of st.text_input() so that the text input box is deactivated and after the i…

Anyone x2? I still have no luck…

Hi @Night_Starry It seems you’d like to use the selectbox to provide some starter prompts, however the st.chat_input() does not return these as entered strings and rather uses it as a placeholder text that serves as a visual display of text such as “Enter your text here”. Rather, if you’re using y…

Hi, thank you for the help! However, with st.text_input, while it does put the starter prompt on, it automatically triggers a ChatGPT response when the user selects an item from the dropdown without them manually sending it out. Any ideas for addressing this issue? Right now the code looks like thi…

Hi, I think I got it working, thanks a lot! One final question: Right now the form submit button is below rather than horizontally next to the input, which is a little strange for a Chat app. Is there any way to have st.text_input and st.form_submit_button in the same line?

Programmatically update text in chat_input

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Night_Starry August 2, 2023, 12:36am 7

Thank you for the great ideas! I’ll work on it a bit later

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Programmatically update text in chat_input

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