diff --git a/poetry.lock b/poetry.lock
index 77e7ac0d..f5d58647 100644
--- a/poetry.lock
+++ b/poetry.lock
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# This file is automatically @generated by Poetry 1.5.1 and should not be changed by hand.
+# This file is automatically @generated by Poetry 1.6.1 and should not be changed by hand.
 
 [[package]]
 name = "aiohttp"
@@ -87,6 +87,7 @@ files = [
 
 [package.dependencies]
 aiosignal = ">=1.1.2"
+async-timeout = {version = ">=4.0,<5.0", markers = "python_version < \"3.11\""}
 attrs = ">=17.3.0"
 frozenlist = ">=1.1.1"
 multidict = ">=4.5,<7.0"
@@ -121,6 +122,7 @@ files = [
 ]
 
 [package.dependencies]
+exceptiongroup = {version = ">=1.0.2", markers = "python_version < \"3.11\""}
 idna = ">=2.8"
 sniffio = ">=1.1"
 
@@ -158,6 +160,17 @@ six = ">=1.12.0"
 astroid = ["astroid (>=1,<2)", "astroid (>=2,<4)"]
 test = ["astroid (>=1,<2)", "astroid (>=2,<4)", "pytest"]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "async-timeout"
+version = "4.0.3"
+description = "Timeout context manager for asyncio programs"
+optional = false
+python-versions = ">=3.7"
+files = [
+    {file = "async-timeout-4.0.3.tar.gz", hash = "sha256:4640d96be84d82d02ed59ea2b7105a0f7b33abe8703703cd0ab0bf87c427522f"},
+    {file = "async_timeout-4.0.3-py3-none-any.whl", hash = "sha256:7405140ff1230c310e51dc27b3145b9092d659ce68ff733fb0cefe3ee42be028"},
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "attrs"
 version = "23.1.0"
@@ -226,6 +239,8 @@ packaging = ">=22.0"
 pathspec = ">=0.9.0"
 platformdirs = ">=2"
 tokenize-rt = {version = ">=3.2.0", optional = true, markers = "extra == \"jupyter\""}
+tomli = {version = ">=1.1.0", markers = "python_version < \"3.11\""}
+typing-extensions = {version = ">=4.0.1", markers = "python_version < \"3.11\""}
 
 [package.extras]
 colorama = ["colorama (>=0.4.3)"]
@@ -546,6 +561,9 @@ files = [
     {file = "coverage-7.3.2.tar.gz", hash = "sha256:be32ad29341b0170e795ca590e1c07e81fc061cb5b10c74ce7203491484404ef"},
 ]
 
+[package.dependencies]
+tomli = {version = "*", optional = true, markers = "python_full_version <= \"3.11.0a6\" and extra == \"toml\""}
+
 [package.extras]
 toml = ["tomli"]
 
@@ -598,6 +616,20 @@ files = [
     {file = "distro-1.8.0.tar.gz", hash = "sha256:02e111d1dc6a50abb8eed6bf31c3e48ed8b0830d1ea2a1b78c61765c2513fdd8"},
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "exceptiongroup"
+version = "1.2.0"
+description = "Backport of PEP 654 (exception groups)"
+optional = false
+python-versions = ">=3.7"
+files = [
+    {file = "exceptiongroup-1.2.0-py3-none-any.whl", hash = "sha256:4bfd3996ac73b41e9b9628b04e079f193850720ea5945fc96a08633c66912f14"},
+    {file = "exceptiongroup-1.2.0.tar.gz", hash = "sha256:91f5c769735f051a4290d52edd0858999b57e5876e9f85937691bd4c9fa3ed68"},
+]
+
+[package.extras]
+test = ["pytest (>=6)"]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "execnet"
 version = "2.0.2"
@@ -886,6 +918,7 @@ files = [
 [package.dependencies]
 colorama = {version = "*", markers = "sys_platform == \"win32\""}
 decorator = "*"
+exceptiongroup = {version = "*", markers = "python_version < \"3.11\""}
 jedi = ">=0.16"
 matplotlib-inline = "*"
 pexpect = {version = ">4.3", markers = "sys_platform != \"win32\""}
@@ -1158,6 +1191,7 @@ files = [
 
 [package.dependencies]
 mypy-extensions = ">=1.0.0"
+tomli = {version = ">=1.1.0", markers = "python_version < \"3.11\""}
 typing-extensions = ">=4.1.0"
 
 [package.extras]
@@ -1532,9 +1566,11 @@ files = [
 
 [package.dependencies]
 colorama = {version = "*", markers = "sys_platform == \"win32\""}
+exceptiongroup = {version = ">=1.0.0rc8", markers = "python_version < \"3.11\""}
 iniconfig = "*"
 packaging = "*"
 pluggy = ">=0.12,<2.0"
+tomli = {version = ">=1.0.0", markers = "python_version < \"3.11\""}
 
 [package.extras]
 testing = ["argcomplete", "attrs (>=19.2.0)", "hypothesis (>=3.56)", "mock", "nose", "pygments (>=2.7.2)", "requests", "setuptools", "xmlschema"]
@@ -1932,6 +1968,17 @@ files = [
     {file = "tokenize_rt-5.2.0.tar.gz", hash = "sha256:9fe80f8a5c1edad2d3ede0f37481cc0cc1538a2f442c9c2f9e4feacd2792d054"},
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "tomli"
+version = "2.0.1"
+description = "A lil' TOML parser"
+optional = false
+python-versions = ">=3.7"
+files = [
+    {file = "tomli-2.0.1-py3-none-any.whl", hash = "sha256:939de3e7a6161af0c887ef91b7d41a53e7c5a1ca976325f429cb46ea9bc30ecc"},
+    {file = "tomli-2.0.1.tar.gz", hash = "sha256:de526c12914f0c550d15924c62d72abc48d6fe7364aa87328337a31007fe8a4f"},
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "tornado"
 version = "6.4"
@@ -2155,5 +2202,5 @@ testing = ["big-O", "jaraco.functools", "jaraco.itertools", "more-itertools", "p
 
 [metadata]
 lock-version = "2.0"
-python-versions = "^3.11"
-content-hash = "c231cdda3896d7ecd509a30bcaa552e23fcf9899952eba2f0f6d286256fd14b3"
+python-versions = "^3.10"
+content-hash = "3300c77d6b6fab3faca403e2f3064a23e9f5ddcd34d63cad42d39b94b1ae5c2b"
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index e676897f..5152d893 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ authors = [
 readme = "README.md"
 
 [tool.poetry.dependencies]
-python = "^3.11"
+python = "^3.10"
 pydantic = "^1.8.2"
 openai = "^1.3.9"
 cohere = "^4.32"
diff --git a/semantic_router/encoders/cohere.py b/semantic_router/encoders/cohere.py
index 34331d23..9cddcb58 100644
--- a/semantic_router/encoders/cohere.py
+++ b/semantic_router/encoders/cohere.py
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
 
 
 class CohereEncoder(BaseEncoder):
-    client: cohere.Client | None
+    client: cohere.Client | None = None
 
     def __init__(
         self,
diff --git a/walkthrough.ipynb b/walkthrough.ipynb
index a4265e5a..d008739c 100644
--- a/walkthrough.ipynb
+++ b/walkthrough.ipynb
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@
    "metadata": {},
    "outputs": [],
    "source": [
-    "!pip install -qU semantic-router==0.0.6"
+    "!pip install -qU semantic-router==0.0.8"
    ]
   },
   {