SimpleChat v3.1: Boolean chat request options in Settings UI, cache_prompt (#7950)

* SimpleChat: Allow for chat req bool options to be user controlled

* SimpleChat: Allow user to control cache_prompt flag in request

* SimpleChat: Add sample GUI images to readme file

Show the chat screen and the settings screen

* SimpleChat:Readme: Add quickstart block, title to image, cleanup

* SimpleChat: RePosition contents of the Info and Settings UI

Make it more logically structured and flow through.

* SimpleChat: Rename to apiRequestOptions from chatRequestOptions

So that it is not wrongly assumed that these request options are
used only for chat/completions endpoint. Rather these are used
for both the end points, so rename to match semantic better.

* SimpleChat: Update image included with readme wrt settings ui

* SimpleChat:ReadMe: Switch to webp screen image to reduce size

Author: hanishkvc

examples/server/public_simplechat/readme.md

@@ -3,6 +3,13 @@
 
 by Humans for All.
 
+## quickstart
+
+To run from the build dir
+
+bin/llama-server -m path/model.gguf --path ../examples/server/public_simplechat
+
+Continue reading for the details.
 
 ## overview
 
@@ -14,6 +21,8 @@ own system prompts.
 This allows seeing the generated text / ai-model response in oneshot at the end, after it is fully generated,
 or potentially as it is being generated, in a streamed manner from the server/ai-model.
 
+![Chat and Settings screens](./simplechat_screens.webp "Chat and Settings screens")
+
 Auto saves the chat session locally as and when the chat is progressing and inturn at a later time when you
 open SimpleChat, option is provided to restore the old chat session, if a matching one exists.
 
@@ -170,17 +179,23 @@ It is attached to the document object. Some of these can also be updated using t
     The histogram/freq based trimming logic is currently tuned for english language wrt its
     is-it-a-alpabetic|numeral-char regex match logic.
 
-  chatRequestOptions - maintains the list of options/fields to send along with chat request,
+  apiRequestOptions - maintains the list of options/fields to send along with api request,
   irrespective of whether /chat/completions or /completions endpoint.
 
     If you want to add additional options/fields to send to the server/ai-model, and or
     modify the existing options value or remove them, for now you can update this global var
     using browser's development-tools/console.
 
-    For string and numeric fields in chatRequestOptions, including even those added by a user
-    at runtime by directly modifying gMe.chatRequestOptions, setting ui entries will be auto
+    For string, numeric and boolean fields in apiRequestOptions, including even those added by a
+    user at runtime by directly modifying gMe.apiRequestOptions, setting ui entries will be auto
     created.
 
+    cache_prompt option supported by example/server is allowed to be controlled by user, so that
+    any caching supported wrt system-prompt and chat history, if usable can get used. When chat
+    history sliding window is enabled, cache_prompt logic may or may not kick in at the backend
+    wrt same, based on aspects related to model, positional encoding, attention mechanism etal.
+    However system prompt should ideally get the benefit of caching.
+
   headers - maintains the list of http headers sent when request is made to the server. By default
   Content-Type is set to application/json. Additionally Authorization entry is provided, which can
   be set if needed using the settings ui.
@@ -197,10 +212,10 @@ It is attached to the document object. Some of these can also be updated using t
     >0 : Send the latest chat history from the latest system prompt, limited to specified cnt.
 
 
-By using gMe's iRecentUserMsgCnt and chatRequestOptions.max_tokens one can try to control the
-implications of loading of the ai-model's context window by chat history, wrt chat response to
-some extent in a simple crude way. You may also want to control the context size enabled when
-the server loads ai-model, on the server end.
+By using gMe's iRecentUserMsgCnt and apiRequestOptions.max_tokens/n_predict one can try to control
+the implications of loading of the ai-model's context window by chat history, wrt chat response to
+some extent in a simple crude way. You may also want to control the context size enabled when the
+server loads ai-model, on the server end.
 
 
 Sometimes the browser may be stuborn with caching of the file, so your updates to html/css/js
@@ -237,12 +252,12 @@ also be started with a model context size of 1k or more, to be on safe side.
   internal n_predict, for now add the same here on the client side, maybe later add max_tokens
   to /completions endpoint handling code on server side.
 
-NOTE: One may want to experiment with frequency/presence penalty fields in chatRequestOptions
-wrt the set of fields sent to server along with the user query. To check how the model behaves
+NOTE: One may want to experiment with frequency/presence penalty fields in apiRequestOptions
+wrt the set of fields sent to server along with the user query, to check how the model behaves
 wrt repeatations in general in the generated text response.
 
 A end-user can change these behaviour by editing gMe from browser's devel-tool/console or by
-using the providing settings ui.
+using the provided settings ui (for settings exposed through the ui).
 
 
 ### OpenAi / Equivalent API WebService
@@ -253,7 +268,7 @@ for a minimal chatting experimentation by setting the below.
 * the baseUrl in settings ui
   * https://api.openai.com/v1 or similar
 
-* Wrt request body - gMe.chatRequestOptions
+* Wrt request body - gMe.apiRequestOptions
   * model (settings ui)
   * any additional fields if required in future
 

examples/server/public_simplechat/simplechat.js

@@ -222,8 +222,8 @@ class SimpleChat {
      * @param {Object} obj
      */
     request_jsonstr_extend(obj) {
-        for(let k in gMe.chatRequestOptions) {
-            obj[k] = gMe.chatRequestOptions[k];
+        for(let k in gMe.apiRequestOptions) {
+            obj[k] = gMe.apiRequestOptions[k];
         }
         if (gMe.bStream) {
             obj["stream"] = true;
@@ -740,11 +740,12 @@ class Me {
             "Authorization": "", // Authorization: Bearer OPENAI_API_KEY
         }
         // Add needed fields wrt json object to be sent wrt LLM web services completions endpoint.
-        this.chatRequestOptions = {
+        this.apiRequestOptions = {
             "model": "gpt-3.5-turbo",
             "temperature": 0.7,
             "max_tokens": 1024,
             "n_predict": 1024,
+            "cache_prompt": false,
             //"frequency_penalty": 1.2,
             //"presence_penalty": 1.2,
         };
@@ -800,51 +801,55 @@ class Me {
 
             ui.el_create_append_p(`bStream:${this.bStream}`, elDiv);
 
-            ui.el_create_append_p(`bCompletionFreshChatAlways:${this.bCompletionFreshChatAlways}`, elDiv);
-
-            ui.el_create_append_p(`bCompletionInsertStandardRolePrefix:${this.bCompletionInsertStandardRolePrefix}`, elDiv);
-
             ui.el_create_append_p(`bTrimGarbage:${this.bTrimGarbage}`, elDiv);
 
+            ui.el_create_append_p(`ApiEndPoint:${this.apiEP}`, elDiv);
+
             ui.el_create_append_p(`iRecentUserMsgCnt:${this.iRecentUserMsgCnt}`, elDiv);
 
-            ui.el_create_append_p(`ApiEndPoint:${this.apiEP}`, elDiv);
+            ui.el_create_append_p(`bCompletionFreshChatAlways:${this.bCompletionFreshChatAlways}`, elDiv);
+
+            ui.el_create_append_p(`bCompletionInsertStandardRolePrefix:${this.bCompletionInsertStandardRolePrefix}`, elDiv);
 
         }
 
-        ui.el_create_append_p(`chatRequestOptions:${JSON.stringify(this.chatRequestOptions, null, " - ")}`, elDiv);
+        ui.el_create_append_p(`apiRequestOptions:${JSON.stringify(this.apiRequestOptions, null, " - ")}`, elDiv);
         ui.el_create_append_p(`headers:${JSON.stringify(this.headers, null, " - ")}`, elDiv);
 
     }
 
     /**
-     * Auto create ui input elements for fields in ChatRequestOptions
+     * Auto create ui input elements for fields in apiRequestOptions
      * Currently supports text and number field types.
      * @param {HTMLDivElement} elDiv
      */
-    show_settings_chatrequestoptions(elDiv) {
+    show_settings_apirequestoptions(elDiv) {
         let typeDict = {
             "string": "text",
             "number": "number",
         };
         let fs = document.createElement("fieldset");
         let legend = document.createElement("legend");
-        legend.innerText = "ChatRequestOptions";
+        legend.innerText = "ApiRequestOptions";
         fs.appendChild(legend);
         elDiv.appendChild(fs);
-        for(const k in this.chatRequestOptions) {
-            let val = this.chatRequestOptions[k];
+        for(const k in this.apiRequestOptions) {
+            let val = this.apiRequestOptions[k];
             let type = typeof(val);
-            if (!((type == "string") || (type == "number"))) {
-                continue;
+            if (((type == "string") || (type == "number"))) {
+                let inp = ui.el_creatediv_input(`Set${k}`, k, typeDict[type], this.apiRequestOptions[k], (val)=>{
+                    if (type == "number") {
+                        val = Number(val);
+                    }
+                    this.apiRequestOptions[k] = val;
+                });
+                fs.appendChild(inp.div);
+            } else if (type == "boolean") {
+                let bbtn = ui.el_creatediv_boolbutton(`Set{k}`, k, {true: "true", false: "false"}, val, (userVal)=>{
+                    this.apiRequestOptions[k] = userVal;
+                });
+                fs.appendChild(bbtn.div);
             }
-            let inp = ui.el_creatediv_input(`Set${k}`, k, typeDict[type], this.chatRequestOptions[k], (val)=>{
-                if (type == "number") {
-                    val = Number(val);
-                }
-                this.chatRequestOptions[k] = val;
-            });
-            fs.appendChild(inp.div);
         }
     }
 
@@ -870,32 +875,32 @@ class Me {
         });
         elDiv.appendChild(bb.div);
 
-        bb = ui.el_creatediv_boolbutton("SetCompletionFreshChatAlways", "CompletionFreshChatAlways", {true: "[+] yes fresh", false: "[-] no, with history"}, this.bCompletionFreshChatAlways, (val)=>{
-            this.bCompletionFreshChatAlways = val;
+        bb = ui.el_creatediv_boolbutton("SetTrimGarbage", "TrimGarbage", {true: "[+] yes trim", false: "[-] dont trim"}, this.bTrimGarbage, (val)=>{
+            this.bTrimGarbage = val;
         });
         elDiv.appendChild(bb.div);
 
-        bb = ui.el_creatediv_boolbutton("SetCompletionInsertStandardRolePrefix", "CompletionInsertStandardRolePrefix", {true: "[+] yes insert", false: "[-] dont insert"}, this.bCompletionInsertStandardRolePrefix, (val)=>{
-            this.bCompletionInsertStandardRolePrefix = val;
-        });
-        elDiv.appendChild(bb.div);
+        this.show_settings_apirequestoptions(elDiv);
 
-        bb = ui.el_creatediv_boolbutton("SetTrimGarbage", "TrimGarbage", {true: "[+] yes trim", false: "[-] dont trim"}, this.bTrimGarbage, (val)=>{
-            this.bTrimGarbage = val;
+        let sel = ui.el_creatediv_select("SetApiEP", "ApiEndPoint", ApiEP.Type, this.apiEP, (val)=>{
+            this.apiEP = ApiEP.Type[val];
         });
-        elDiv.appendChild(bb.div);
+        elDiv.appendChild(sel.div);
 
-        let sel = ui.el_creatediv_select("SetChatHistoryInCtxt", "ChatHistoryInCtxt", this.sRecentUserMsgCnt, this.iRecentUserMsgCnt, (val)=>{
+        sel = ui.el_creatediv_select("SetChatHistoryInCtxt", "ChatHistoryInCtxt", this.sRecentUserMsgCnt, this.iRecentUserMsgCnt, (val)=>{
             this.iRecentUserMsgCnt = this.sRecentUserMsgCnt[val];
         });
         elDiv.appendChild(sel.div);
 
-        sel = ui.el_creatediv_select("SetApiEP", "ApiEndPoint", ApiEP.Type, this.apiEP, (val)=>{
-            this.apiEP = ApiEP.Type[val];
+        bb = ui.el_creatediv_boolbutton("SetCompletionFreshChatAlways", "CompletionFreshChatAlways", {true: "[+] yes fresh", false: "[-] no, with history"}, this.bCompletionFreshChatAlways, (val)=>{
+            this.bCompletionFreshChatAlways = val;
         });
-        elDiv.appendChild(sel.div);
+        elDiv.appendChild(bb.div);
 
-        this.show_settings_chatrequestoptions(elDiv);
+        bb = ui.el_creatediv_boolbutton("SetCompletionInsertStandardRolePrefix", "CompletionInsertStandardRolePrefix", {true: "[+] yes insert", false: "[-] dont insert"}, this.bCompletionInsertStandardRolePrefix, (val)=>{
+            this.bCompletionInsertStandardRolePrefix = val;
+        });
+        elDiv.appendChild(bb.div);
 
     }