diff --git a/litellm/proxy/proxy_server.py b/litellm/proxy/proxy_server.py
index c2d3d194ae..6f442f1ae3 100644
--- a/litellm/proxy/proxy_server.py
+++ b/litellm/proxy/proxy_server.py
@@ -1178,7 +1178,7 @@ class ProxyConfig:
 
                     verbose_proxy_logger.debug(f"passed cache type={cache_type}")
 
-                    if cache_type == "redis":
+                    if cache_type == "redis" or cache_type == "redis-semantic":
                         cache_host = litellm.get_secret("REDIS_HOST", None)
                         cache_port = litellm.get_secret("REDIS_PORT", None)
                         cache_password = litellm.get_secret("REDIS_PASSWORD", None)
@@ -1205,6 +1205,9 @@ class ProxyConfig:
                             f"{blue_color_code}Cache Password:{reset_color_code} {cache_password}"
                         )
                         print()  # noqa
+                    if cache_type == "redis-semantic":
+                        # by default this should always be async
+                        cache_params.update({"redis_semantic_cache_use_async": True})
 
                     # users can pass os.environ/ variables on the proxy - we should read them from the env
                     for key, value in cache_params.items():
diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index b0a49553d1..3ace5872ad 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ gunicorn==21.2.0 # server dep
 boto3==1.28.58 # aws bedrock/sagemaker calls
 redis==4.6.0 # caching
 redisvl==0.0.7 # semantic caching
+numpy==1.24.3 # semantic caching
 prisma==0.11.0 # for db
 mangum==0.17.0 # for aws lambda functions
 google-generativeai==0.3.2 # for vertex ai calls