feat: Exclude Top Choices (XTC)

[giladgd]

Description of change

• feat: Exclude Top Choices (XTC) support
• fix: adapt to breaking llama.cpp changes
• fix: support tool call syntax with optional whitespace prefix
• fix: find the provided cmake path
• fix: change the default value of useDirectIo to false
• fix: Vulkan device dedupe
• chore: update modules
• chore: update PR lint CI job

Resolves #548
Resolves #552

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