diff --git a/dsp/modules/hf_client.py b/dsp/modules/hf_client.py
index caa4b62652..6c4aaef20b 100644
--- a/dsp/modules/hf_client.py
+++ b/dsp/modules/hf_client.py
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@
 import re
 import shutil
 import subprocess
+from typing import Literal
 
 # from dsp.modules.adapter import TurboAdapter, DavinciAdapter, LlamaAdapter
 import backoff
@@ -114,7 +115,7 @@ def send_hftgi_request_v00(arg, **kwargs):
 
 
 class HFClientVLLM(HFModel):
-    def __init__(self, model, port, url="http://localhost", **kwargs):
+    def __init__(self, model, port, model_type: Literal['chat', 'text'] = 'text', url="http://localhost", **kwargs):
         super().__init__(model=model, is_client=True)
 
         if isinstance(url, list):
@@ -126,42 +127,76 @@ def __init__(self, model, port, url="http://localhost", **kwargs):
         else:
             raise ValueError(f"The url provided to `HFClientVLLM` is neither a string nor a list of strings. It is of type {type(url)}.")
         
+        self.model_type = model_type
         self.headers = {"Content-Type": "application/json"}
         self.kwargs |= kwargs
+        # kwargs needs to have model, port and url for the lm.copy() to work properly
+        self.kwargs.update({
+            'port': port,
+            'url': url,
+        })
 
 
     def _generate(self, prompt, **kwargs):
         kwargs = {**self.kwargs, **kwargs}
-
-        payload = {
-            "model": self.kwargs["model"],
-            "prompt": prompt,
-            **kwargs,
-        }
-
         
         # Round robin the urls.
         url = self.urls.pop(0)
         self.urls.append(url)
+        
+        if self.model_type == "chat":
+            system_prompt = kwargs.get("system_prompt",None)
+            messages = [{"role": "user", "content": prompt}]
+            if system_prompt:
+                messages.insert(0, {"role": "system", "content": system_prompt})
+            payload = {
+                "model": self.kwargs["model"],
+                "messages": messages,
+                **kwargs,
+            }
+            response = send_hfvllm_chat_request_v00(
+                f"{url}/v1/chat/completions",
+                json=payload,
+                headers=self.headers,
+            )
+
+            try:
+                json_response = response.json()
+                completions = json_response["choices"]
+                response = {
+                    "prompt": prompt,
+                    "choices": [{"text": c["message"]['content']} for c in completions],
+                }
+                return response
 
-        response = send_hfvllm_request_v00(
-            f"{url}/v1/completions",
-            json=payload,
-            headers=self.headers,
-        )
-
-        try:
-            json_response = response.json()
-            completions = json_response["choices"]
-            response = {
+            except Exception:
+                print("Failed to parse JSON response:", response.text)
+                raise Exception("Received invalid JSON response from server")
+        else:
+            payload = {
+                "model": self.kwargs["model"],
                 "prompt": prompt,
-                "choices": [{"text": c["text"]} for c in completions],
+                **kwargs,
             }
-            return response
+            
+            response = send_hfvllm_request_v00(
+                f"{url}/v1/completions",
+                json=payload,
+                headers=self.headers,
+            )
+
+            try:
+                json_response = response.json()
+                completions = json_response["choices"]
+                response = {
+                    "prompt": prompt,
+                    "choices": [{"text": c["text"]} for c in completions],
+                }
+                return response
 
-        except Exception:
-            print("Failed to parse JSON response:", response.text)
-            raise Exception("Received invalid JSON response from server")
+            except Exception:
+                print("Failed to parse JSON response:", response.text)
+                raise Exception("Received invalid JSON response from server")
 
 
 @CacheMemory.cache
@@ -169,6 +204,11 @@ def send_hfvllm_request_v00(arg, **kwargs):
     return requests.post(arg, **kwargs)
 
 
+@CacheMemory.cache
+def send_hfvllm_chat_request_v00(arg, **kwargs):
+    return requests.post(arg, **kwargs)
+
+
 class HFServerTGI:
     def __init__(self, user_dir):
         self.model_weights_dir = os.path.abspath(os.path.join(os.getcwd(), "text-generation-inference", user_dir))
@@ -435,4 +475,4 @@ def _generate(self, prompt, **kwargs):
 
 @CacheMemory.cache
 def send_hfsglang_request_v00(arg, **kwargs):
-    return requests.post(arg, **kwargs)
\ No newline at end of file
+    return requests.post(arg, **kwargs)
diff --git a/dsp/modules/lm.py b/dsp/modules/lm.py
index b1c26dc8da..cfe8b88d05 100644
--- a/dsp/modules/lm.py
+++ b/dsp/modules/lm.py
@@ -63,13 +63,11 @@ def inspect_history(self, n: int = 1, skip: int = 0):
             if len(printed) >= n:
                 break
 
+        printing_value = ""
         for idx, (prompt, choices) in enumerate(reversed(printed)):
-            printing_value = ""
-
             # skip the first `skip` prompts
             if (n - idx - 1) < skip:
                 continue
-
             printing_value += "\n\n\n"
             printing_value += prompt