Update app.py

app.py

@@ -78,15 +78,15 @@ with gr.Blocks(theme=gr.themes.Monochrome(),css="footer{display:none !important}
 
         return response # Returning the chat bot response
 
-    def return_inputs(inputs):
-        return inputs
+    def return_sent():
+        return 'message sent, please wait to connect...'
 
     initial_message = "Please write your prompt here and press 'enter'" # Initial message for the User Interface (basically the message for the typing input area so change the message under the quotes if you want to change that)
     Chatbot = gr.Chatbot(label="Anonymous User",layout=['bubble']) # Creating a gradio-chatbot User Interface with the label "Anonymous User".
 
     txt = gr.Textbox(show_label=False, placeholder = initial_message, container=False)
     
-    txt.submit(fn = return_inputs, inputs = txt, outputs = Chatbot)
+    txt.submit(fn = return_sent, inputs = None, outputs = txt)
     txt.submit(fn = predict_prompt, inputs = [txt, user_id], outputs = Chatbot, show_progress = 'hidden') # Adding the messages into the row with gradio.
         
 chatblock.launch() # launch!