diff --git a/common/arg.cpp b/common/arg.cpp
index 72750a3cba..bd736a0eda 100644
--- a/common/arg.cpp
+++ b/common/arg.cpp
@@ -3505,6 +3505,30 @@ common_params_context common_params_parser_init(common_params & params, llama_ex
         }
     ).set_examples({LLAMA_EXAMPLE_TTS}));
 
+    add_opt(common_arg(
+        {"--rerank-bge-m3-default"},
+        string_format("use BAAI/bge-reranker-v2-m3 (note: can download weights from the internet)"),
+        [](common_params & params) {
+            params.model.hf_repo = "BAAI/bge-reranker-v2-m3";
+            params.model.hf_file = "bge-reranker-v2-m3-Q8_0.gguf";
+            params.embedding = true;
+            params.port = 8015;
+        }
+    ).set_examples({LLAMA_EXAMPLE_SERVER}));
+
+    add_opt(common_arg(
+        {"--chat-llama3.1-8b-default"},
+        string_format("use Meta Llama 3.1 8B Instruct (note: can download weights from the internet)"),
+        [](common_params & params) {
+            params.model.hf_repo = "gaianet/Meta-Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct-GGUF"; 
+            params.model.hf_file = "Meta-Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct-Q4_K_M.gguf";
+            params.port = 8016;
+            params.n_ubatch = 512;
+            params.n_batch = 2048;
+            params.n_ctx = 8192; 
+        }
+    ).set_examples({LLAMA_EXAMPLE_SERVER}));
+
     add_opt(common_arg(
         {"--embd-gemma-default"},
         string_format("use default EmbeddingGemma model (note: can download weights from the internet)"),