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@@ -5,7 +5,8 @@ A web interface and API for the LLaMA large language AI model, based on the [lla
 ## Features
 
 - Live streaming responses
-- Continuation-based UI, supporting interrupt, modify, and resume
+- Continuation-based UI
+- Supports interrupt, modify, and resume
 - Configure the maximum number of simultaneous users
 - Works with any LLaMA model including [Vicuna](https://huggingface.co/eachadea/ggml-vicuna-13b-4bit)
 - Bundled copy of llama.cpp, no separate compilation required
@@ -23,9 +24,11 @@ LCH_MODEL_PATH=/srv/llama/ggml-vicuna-13b-4bit-rev1.bin \
 
 ## API usage
 
-```
-curl -v -d '{"ConversationID": "", "APIKey": "", "Content": "The quick brown fox"}' -X 'http://localhost:8090/api/v1/generate'
-```
+The `generate` endpoint will live stream new tokens into an existing conversation until the LLM stops naturally.
+
+- Usage: `curl -v -X POST -d '{"Content": "The quick brown fox"}' 'http://localhost:8090/api/v1/generate'`
+- You can optionally supply `ConversationID` and `APIKey` string parameters. However, these are not currently used by the server.
+- You can optionally supply a `MaxTokens` integer parameter, to cap the number of generated tokens from the LLM.
 
 ## License