diff --git a/python/semantic_kernel/connectors/ai/hugging_face/services/hf_text_completion.py b/python/semantic_kernel/connectors/ai/hugging_face/services/hf_text_completion.py
index 5dfa7d0aadb1..711472b0d654 100644
--- a/python/semantic_kernel/connectors/ai/hugging_face/services/hf_text_completion.py
+++ b/python/semantic_kernel/connectors/ai/hugging_face/services/hf_text_completion.py
@@ -132,7 +132,7 @@ async def _inner_get_streaming_text_contents(
             streamer = TextIteratorStreamer(AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained(self.ai_model_id))
             # See https://github.com/huggingface/transformers/blob/main/src/transformers/generation/streamers.py#L159
             thread = Thread(
-                target=self.generator, args={prompt}, kwargs=settings.prepare_settings_dict(streamer=streamer)
+                target=self.generator, args=(prompt,), kwargs=settings.prepare_settings_dict(streamer=streamer)
             )
             thread.start()