adds remote requests to makefile

Makefile

@@ -11,6 +11,21 @@ help: ## get a list of all the targets, and their short descriptions
 	@# source for the incantation: https://marmelab.com/blog/2016/02/29/auto-documented-makefile.html
 	@grep -E '^[a-zA-Z_-]+:.*?## .*$$' Makefile | awk 'BEGIN {FS = ":.*?##"}; {printf "\033[36m%-12s\033[0m %s\n", $$1, $$2}'
 
+API_URL=https://$(HUGGINGFACE_USERNAME)-ask-fsdl.hf.space/run
+PROMPT=What is PyTorch?
+remote_request: ## send a request to the instance on Hugging Face
+	@if [ -z $$(echo $(HUGGINGFACE_USERNAME)) ]; then\
+		echo "###";\
+		echo "# 🥞: Add a HUGGINGFACE_USERNAME to the .env file to run remotely";\
+		echo "###";\
+	else\
+	 	echo "$(PROMPT)";\
+		echo "###";\
+		echo "# 🥞: Running inference at $(API_URL)";\
+		echo "###";\
+		(echo '{ "data": ["'$(PROMPT)'"]}') \
+			| curl -s -X POST $(API_URL)/predict -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -d @-;\
+	fi
 
 serve: ## serve this locally
 	gradio app.py