Yoda chat error output

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(yoda_test) aswin@ThinkPad-L440:~/project/yoda_test/stuff$ yoda chat hello
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/aswin/project/yoda_test/bin/yoda", line 11, in <module>
    load_entry_point('yoda==0.2.0', 'console_scripts', 'yoda')()
  File "/home/aswin/project/yoda_test/lib/python3.5/site-packages/click/core.py", line 722, in __call__
    return self.main(*args, **kwargs)
  File "/home/aswin/project/yoda_test/lib/python3.5/site-packages/click/core.py", line 697, in main
    rv = self.invoke(ctx)
  File "/home/aswin/project/yoda_test/lib/python3.5/site-packages/click/core.py", line 1066, in invoke
    return _process_result(sub_ctx.command.invoke(sub_ctx))
  File "/home/aswin/project/yoda_test/lib/python3.5/site-packages/click/core.py", line 895, in invoke
    return ctx.invoke(self.callback, **ctx.params)
  File "/home/aswin/project/yoda_test/lib/python3.5/site-packages/click/core.py", line 535, in invoke
    return callback(*args, **kwargs)
  File "/home/aswin/project/yoda_test/lib/python3.5/site-packages/click/decorators.py", line 17, in new_func
    return f(get_current_context(), *args, **kwargs)
  File "/home/aswin/project/yoda_test/lib/python3.5/site-packages/yoda.py", line 34, in chat
    data = sys.modules['modules.chat'].process(test_string)
  File "/home/aswin/project/yoda_test/lib/python3.5/site-packages/modules/chat.py", line 61, in process
    output = json.loads(response)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.5/json/__init__.py", line 312, in loads
    s.__class__.__name__))
TypeError: the JSON object must be str, not 'bytes'