diff --git a/backends/base_model_container.py b/backends/base_model_container.py
index 631bfbc..5c79867 100644
--- a/backends/base_model_container.py
+++ b/backends/base_model_container.py
@@ -127,9 +127,6 @@ class BaseModelContainer(abc.ABC):
         """
         Gets special tokens used by the model/tokenizer.
 
-        Args:
-            **kwargs: Options like add_bos_token, ban_eos_token.
-
         Returns:
             A dictionary mapping special token names (e.g., 'bos_token', 'eos_token')
             to their string or ID representation.
diff --git a/backends/exllamav2/model.py b/backends/exllamav2/model.py
index e677f04..b821d1a 100644
--- a/backends/exllamav2/model.py
+++ b/backends/exllamav2/model.py
@@ -838,7 +838,9 @@ class ExllamaV2Container(BaseModelContainer):
         return (
             self.tokenizer.encode(
                 text,
-                add_bos=unwrap(kwargs.get("add_bos_token"), True),
+                add_bos=unwrap(
+                    kwargs.get("add_bos_token"), self.tokenizer_config.add_bos_token
+                ),
                 encode_special_tokens=unwrap(kwargs.get("encode_special_tokens"), True),
                 embeddings=mm_embeddings_content,
             )
@@ -1254,14 +1256,11 @@ class ExllamaV2Container(BaseModelContainer):
         stop_conditions = params.stop
         ban_eos_token = params.ban_eos_token
 
-        print(self.tokenizer_config.add_bos_token)
         # Set add_bos_token for generation
-        add_bos_token = coalesce(
-            params.add_bos_token, self.tokenizer_config.add_bos_token, True
+        add_bos_token = unwrap(
+            params.add_bos_token, self.tokenizer_config.add_bos_token
         )
 
-        print(add_bos_token)
-
         # Fetch EOS tokens from generation_config if they exist
         eos_tokens = (
             self.generation_config.eos_tokens()
diff --git a/common/transformers_utils.py b/common/transformers_utils.py
index 32ff52e..045312c 100644
--- a/common/transformers_utils.py
+++ b/common/transformers_utils.py
@@ -60,7 +60,7 @@ class TokenizerConfig(BaseModel):
     An abridged version of HuggingFace's tokenizer config.
     """
 
-    add_bos_token: Optional[bool] = None
+    add_bos_token: Optional[bool] = True
 
     @classmethod
     async def from_file(cls, model_directory: pathlib.Path):