Use an open-source LLM (via HuggingFace)
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What this workflow does
This AI workflow has 3 nodes and runs when a chat message arrives. Along the way it connects Hugging Face Inference Model.
How it runs
Trigger: When a chat message arrives.
- Basic LLM Chain: sends a prompt to an LLM, with model: Hugging Face Inference Model
Services it uses
Before you upgrade to n8n 3.0
Nothing in this workflow is removed in n8n 3.0, so it should import and run after the upgrade.
Nodes used (3)
- Chat Trigger
@n8n/n8n-nodes-langchain.chatTrigger - Basic LLM Chain
@n8n/n8n-nodes-langchain.chainLlm - Hugging Face Inference Model
@n8n/n8n-nodes-langchain.lmOpenHuggingFaceInference
From the author
This workflow demonstrates how to connect an open-source model to a Basic LLM node. The workflow is triggered when a new manual chat message appears. The message is then run through a Language Model Chain that is set up to process text with a specific prompt…