diff --git a/single_shot_inference.py b/single_shot_inference.py
index cc8eafd4..afb79c9e 100644
--- a/single_shot_inference.py
+++ b/single_shot_inference.py
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ log = logging.getLogger("single_shot")
 def parse_args():
     p = argparse.ArgumentParser()
     p.add_argument('--max-tokens', type=int, default=128)
-    p.add_argument('--temperature', type=float, default=0.0, help='Sampling temperature (0=greedy)')
+    p.add_argument('--temperature', type=float, default=0.7, help='Sampling temperature (0=greedy)')
     p.add_argument('--repetition-penalty', type=float, default=1.2, help='Repetition penalty factor')
     p.add_argument('--prompt', type=str, default=None)
     p.add_argument('--seed', type=int, default=42)