Update app.py

app.py

@@ -41,8 +41,8 @@ similarity_model = SentenceTransformer('all-MiniLM-L6-v2')
 
 # Set up a session with retry mechanism
 def requests_retry_session(
-    retries=3,
-    backoff_factor=0.3,
+    retries=0,
+    backoff_factor=0.1,
     status_forcelist=(500, 502, 504),
     session=None,
 ):
@@ -476,7 +476,7 @@ iface = gr.ChatInterface(
     additional_inputs=[
         gr.Slider(5, 20, value=10, step=1, label="Number of initial results"),
         gr.Dropdown(["bs4", "trafilatura"], value="trafilatura", label="Scraping Method"),
-        gr.Slider(500, 10000, value=3000, step=100, label="Max characters to retrieve"),
+        gr.Slider(500, 10000, value=1500, step=100, label="Max characters to retrieve"),
         gr.Dropdown(["", "day", "week", "month", "year"], value="year", label="Time Range"),
         gr.Dropdown(["all", "en", "fr", "de", "es", "it", "nl", "pt", "pl", "ru", "zh"], value="en", label="Language"),
         gr.Dropdown(["", "general", "news", "images", "videos", "music", "files", "it", "science", "social media"], value="", label="Category"),