diff --git a/src/axolotl/prompt_strategies/alpaca_instruct.py b/src/axolotl/prompt_strategies/alpaca_instruct.py
index 0d0b267a6..2e42191f8 100644
--- a/src/axolotl/prompt_strategies/alpaca_instruct.py
+++ b/src/axolotl/prompt_strategies/alpaca_instruct.py
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ from axolotl.prompters import AlpacaPrompter, PromptStyle
 
 def load(tokenizer, cfg):
     return AlpacaPromptTokenizingStrategy(
-        AlpacaPrompter(PromptStyle.INSTRUCT),
+        AlpacaPrompter(PromptStyle.INSTRUCT.value),
         tokenizer,
         cfg.train_on_inputs,
         cfg.sequence_len,