Don't force immediate interactive without `-i` (#354)

* Don't force immediate interactive without -i

Sometimes we might want to use a reverse prompt but we want to let the
model generate tokens right after the initial prompt. So we don't force
user input mode if the -i flag wasn't specified and instead let it run
until we encounter the reverse prompt.

This gives use some more flexibility, since it doesn't force the user to
enter a newline if they want to let the model generate text right after
the initial prompt and only be asked for input if the reverse prompt is
encountered.

The `--interactive-first` flag is reintroduced to force the old
behavior. `-r` behaves like `-i` plus introduces a reverse prompt (it
can be specified more than once).

* Update help output.

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Co-authored-by: Johnman <tjohnman@github>

3 files changed, 10 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/main.cpp b/main.cpp
index fbb43a8..4569ef2 100644
--- a/main.cpp
+++ b/main.cpp
@@ -254,6 +254,10 @@ int main(int argc, char ** argv) {
         params.interactive = true;
     }
 
+    if (params.interactive_start) {
+        params.interactive = true;
+    }
+
     fprintf(stderr, "\n");
     fprintf(stderr, "%s: prompt: '%s'\n", __func__, params.prompt.c_str());
     fprintf(stderr, "%s: number of tokens in prompt = %zu\n", __func__, embd_inp.size());
@@ -296,7 +300,7 @@ int main(int argc, char ** argv) {
 #endif
                " - Press Return to return control to LLaMa.\n"
                " - If you want to submit another line, end your input in '\\'.\n\n");
-        is_interacting = true;
+        is_interacting = params.interactive_start;
     }
 
     int input_consumed = 0;
diff --git a/utils.cpp b/utils.cpp
index 3909c97..1d5309c 100644
--- a/utils.cpp
+++ b/utils.cpp
@@ -63,6 +63,8 @@ bool gpt_params_parse(int argc, char ** argv, gpt_params & params) {
             params.model = argv[++i];
         } else if (arg == "-i" || arg == "--interactive") {
             params.interactive = true;
+        } else if (arg == "--interactive-first") {
+            params.interactive_start = true;
         } else if (arg == "-ins" || arg == "--instruct") {
             params.instruct = true;
         } else if (arg == "--color") {
@@ -96,9 +98,10 @@ void gpt_print_usage(int /*argc*/, char ** argv, const gpt_params & params) {
     fprintf(stderr, "options:\n");
     fprintf(stderr, "  -h, --help            show this help message and exit\n");
     fprintf(stderr, "  -i, --interactive     run in interactive mode\n");
+    fprintf(stderr, "  --interactive-first   run in interactive mode and wait for input right away\n");
     fprintf(stderr, "  -ins, --instruct      run in instruction mode (use with Alpaca models)\n");
     fprintf(stderr, "  -r PROMPT, --reverse-prompt PROMPT\n");
-    fprintf(stderr, "                        in interactive mode, poll user input upon seeing PROMPT (can be\n");
+    fprintf(stderr, "                        run in interactive mode and poll user input upon seeing PROMPT (can be\n");
     fprintf(stderr, "                        specified more than once for multiple prompts).\n");
     fprintf(stderr, "  --color               colorise output to distinguish prompt and user input from generations\n");
     fprintf(stderr, "  -s SEED, --seed SEED  RNG seed (default: -1, use random seed for <= 0)\n");
diff --git a/utils.h b/utils.h
index 3f970ea..b0de556 100644
--- a/utils.h
+++ b/utils.h
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ struct gpt_params {
     bool random_prompt     = false; // do not randomize prompt if none provided
     bool use_color         = false; // use color to distinguish generations and inputs
     bool interactive       = false; // interactive mode
-    bool interactive_start = false; // reverse prompt immediately
+    bool interactive_start = false; // wait for user input immediately
     bool instruct          = false; // instruction mode (used for Alpaca models)
     bool ignore_eos        = false; // do not stop generating after eos
     bool perplexity        = false; // compute perplexity over the prompt