diff --git a/LLama.Examples/Examples/LLama2ChatSession.cs b/LLama.Examples/Examples/LLama2ChatSession.cs
index 8d6c2921..880b7076 100644
--- a/LLama.Examples/Examples/LLama2ChatSession.cs
+++ b/LLama.Examples/Examples/LLama2ChatSession.cs
@@ -17,7 +17,6 @@ public static async Task Run()
         var modelPath = UserSettings.GetModelPath();
         var parameters = new ModelParams(modelPath)
         {
-            Seed = 1337,
             GpuLayerCount = 10
         };
 
@@ -25,7 +24,7 @@ public static async Task Run()
         using var context = model.CreateContext(parameters);
         var executor = new InteractiveExecutor(context);
 
-        var chatHistoryJson = File.ReadAllText("Assets/chat-with-bob.json");
+        var chatHistoryJson = await File.ReadAllTextAsync("Assets/chat-with-bob.json");
         var chatHistory = ChatHistory.FromJson(chatHistoryJson) ?? new ChatHistory();
 
         ChatSession session = new(executor, chatHistory);