Update apis/chat_api.py

apis/chat_api.py

@@ -49,9 +49,9 @@ class EmbeddingsAPIInference:
 
 
 class SentenceTransformerLocal(SentenceTransformer):
-    def encode(self, **kwargs):
+    def encode(self, *args, **kwargs):
         kwargs.pop("api_key", None)
-        return super().encode(**kwargs).tolist()
+        return super().encode(*args, **kwargs).tolist()