Repeating an important warning in the chat template docs #31796
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One important detail with chat templates is that they include all necessary special tokens, so if you apply them and then tokenize the text yourself, you should always use
add_special_tokens=False
. This is mentioned lower down in the template writing tips, but that's an advanced section, so I also added a tip about it further up to ensure people don't miss it.