updated app.py

app.py

@@ -16,6 +16,8 @@ Original file is located at
 # !pip install -qU transformers accelerate einops langchain xformers bitsandbytes faiss-gpu sentence_transformers
 # !pip install gradio
 
+import os
+
 # For handling UTF-8 locale error
 import locale
 def getpreferredencoding(do_setlocale = True):
@@ -40,6 +42,8 @@ bnb_config = transformers.BitsAndBytesConfig(
     bnb_4bit_compute_dtype=bfloat16
 )
 
+# Hugging Face Access Token
+hf_auth = os.environ.get("hf_auth")
 
 # Downloading and parsing model's configuration from HF
 model_config = transformers.AutoConfig.from_pretrained(