🤖 Hugging Face Chatbot + FastAPI

A simple and modern LLM-powered Chatbot API built using:

• 🧠 Hugging Face Inference API (Meta-Llama-3-8B-Instruct)
• ⚡ FastAPI — high-performance Python web framework
• 🐍 Python 3
• 🔐 python-dotenv for secure token handling

This project demonstrates how to build a lightweight R&D-style chatbot using open-source LLMs — suitable for learning, internships, and real applications.

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🚀 Features

• Command-line chatbot (chatbot_hf.py)
• FastAPI REST API server (main.py)
• Clean request/response structure using Pydantic
• Secure environment variable handling via .env
• Minimal, readable, extendable architecture
• Ready to deploy or integrate with UI / LangChain

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📦 Installation

1️⃣ Clone the repository

git clone https://github.com/YOUR_USERNAME/hf-chatbot.git
cd hf-chatbot