diff --git a/candle-examples/examples/falcon/main.rs b/candle-examples/examples/falcon/main.rs
index 4783fbfd..3d79e58c 100644
--- a/candle-examples/examples/falcon/main.rs
+++ b/candle-examples/examples/falcon/main.rs
@@ -19,21 +19,27 @@ const DTYPE: DType = DType::F32;
 #[cfg(not(feature = "mkl"))]
 const DTYPE: DType = DType::BF16;
 
-const TEMPERATURE: Option<f64> = None;
-
 struct TextGeneration {
     model: Falcon,
     rng: rand::rngs::StdRng,
     device: Device,
+    temperature: Option<f64>,
     tokenizer: Tokenizer,
 }
 
 impl TextGeneration {
-    fn new(model: Falcon, tokenizer: Tokenizer, seed: u64, device: &Device) -> Self {
+    fn new(
+        model: Falcon,
+        tokenizer: Tokenizer,
+        seed: u64,
+        temperature: Option<f64>,
+        device: &Device,
+    ) -> Self {
         Self {
             model,
             tokenizer,
             rng: rand::rngs::StdRng::seed_from_u64(seed),
+            temperature,
             device: device.clone(),
         }
     }
@@ -61,7 +67,7 @@ impl TextGeneration {
             let logits = self.model.forward(&input)?;
             let logits = logits.squeeze(0)?.to_dtype(DType::F32)?;
 
-            let next_token = if let Some(temperature) = TEMPERATURE {
+            let next_token = if let Some(temperature) = self.temperature {
                 let prs = (&logits / temperature)?.softmax(D::Minus1)?;
                 let logits_v: Vec<f32> = prs.to_vec1()?;
                 let distr = rand::distributions::WeightedIndex::new(&logits_v)?;
@@ -107,6 +113,10 @@ struct Args {
     #[arg(long)]
     prompt: String,
 
+    /// The temperature used to generate samples.
+    #[arg(long)]
+    temperature: Option<f64>,
+
     /// The seed to use when generating random samples.
     #[arg(long, default_value_t = 299792458)]
     seed: u64,
@@ -161,7 +171,7 @@ fn main() -> Result<()> {
     let model = Falcon::load(&vb, config)?;
     println!("loaded the model in {:?}", start.elapsed());
 
-    let mut pipeline = TextGeneration::new(model, tokenizer, args.seed, &device);
+    let mut pipeline = TextGeneration::new(model, tokenizer, args.seed, args.temperature, &device);
     pipeline.run(&args.prompt, args.sample_len)?;
     Ok(())
 }