diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index cf422d6..800d6cc 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 
 # Stream-Query-Client
 
-Stream-Query-Client is the easiest way to use Vectara's streaming query API. Simply provide a query configuration and a callback to instantly receive stream updates.
+Stream-Query-Client is the easiest way to use Vectara's streaming query API in your JavaScript applications. Simply provide a query configuration and a callback to instantly receive stream updates.
 
 > [!TIP]
 >
diff --git a/src/client.ts b/src/client.ts
index 58868fd..b82a4c6 100644
--- a/src/client.ts
+++ b/src/client.ts
@@ -20,17 +20,22 @@ export const streamQuery = async (
     "Content-Type": "application/json",
   };
 
-  const lambda =
-    typeof config.queryValue === "undefined" ||
-    config.queryValue.trim().split(" ").length > config.hybridNumWords
-      ? config.hybridLambdaLong
-      : config.hybridLambdaShort;
+  // Normalizes lambda to ensure that:
+  // - lambda is between 0 and 1
+  // - lambda is always a positive number
+  let normalizedLambda = config.lambda ?? 0.025;
+  if (normalizedLambda > 1) {
+    normalizedLambda = 1.0;
+  } else if (normalizedLambda < 0) {
+    normalizedLambda = 0;
+  }
+
   const corpusKeyList = config.corpusIds.map((id) => {
     return {
       customerId: config.customerId,
       corpusId: id,
       lexicalInterpolationConfig: {
-        lambda: lambda,
+        lambda: normalizedLambda,
       },
       metadataFilter: config.filter
         ? `doc.source = '${config.filter}'`
@@ -38,6 +43,21 @@ export const streamQuery = async (
     };
   });
 
+  const rerankingConfig = !config.rerank
+    ? {}
+    : {
+        rerankingConfig: {
+          rerankerId: config.rerankerId,
+          ...(config.rerankerId === 272725718
+            ? {
+                mmrConfig: {
+                  diversityBias: config.rerankDiversityBias,
+                },
+              }
+            : {}),
+        },
+      };
+
   const requestBody = JSON.stringify({
     query: [
       {
@@ -62,20 +82,7 @@ export const streamQuery = async (
             },
           },
         ],
-        ...(config.rerank
-          ? {
-              rerankingConfig: {
-                rerankerId: config.rerankerId,
-                ...(config.rerankerId === 272725718
-                  ? {
-                      mmrConfig: {
-                        diversityBias: config.rerankDiversityBias,
-                      },
-                    }
-                  : {}),
-              },
-            }
-          : {}),
+        ...rerankingConfig,
       },
     ],
   });
diff --git a/src/types.ts b/src/types.ts
index c498670..2c565da 100644
--- a/src/types.ts
+++ b/src/types.ts
@@ -48,14 +48,24 @@ export type StreamQueryConfig = {
   // The language the summary should be in.
   language?: SummaryLanguage;
 
+  // Reranking orders your search results for increased relevance.
   rerank?: boolean;
+
+  // Specify how many search results to retrieve and rerank.
   rerankNumResults?: number;
+
+  // Which reranker will be used.
   rerankerId?: number;
+
+  // Diversity bias ranges from 0 to 1.
+  // 0 will optimize for results that are as closely related to the query as possible.
+  // 1 will optimize for results that are as diverse as possible.
   rerankDiversityBias?: number;
 
-  hybridNumWords: number;
-  hybridLambdaShort?: number;
-  hybridLambdaLong?: number;
+  // A number from 0.0 -> 1.0 that determines how much to leverage neural search and keyword search.
+  // A value of 0.0 is purely neural search, where a value of 1.0 is purely keyword search.
+  // Numbers in between are a combination of the two, leaning one way or another.
+  lambda?: number;
 
   // The number of search results to include in creating the summary
   summaryNumResults?: number;