asyncio.async invalid syntax error

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After installing a fresh version of all dependencies and hangupsbot itself, this error is given when attempting to run hangupsbot.

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/local/bin/hangupsbot", line 11, in
load_entry_point('HangupsBot==1.7.1', 'console_scripts', 'hangupsbot')()
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/pkg_resources/init.py", line 490, in load_entry_point
return get_distribution(dist).load_entry_point(group, name)
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/pkg_resources/init.py", line 2854, in load_entry_point
return ep.load()
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/pkg_resources/init.py", line 2445, in load
return self.resolve()
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/pkg_resources/init.py", line 2451, in resolve
module = import(self.module_name, fromlist=['name'], level=0)
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.8/dist-packages/HangupsBot-1.7.1-py3.8.egg/hangupsbot/main.py", line 90
asyncio.async(
^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax

Using python 3.8.2, asyncio 0.4.1 ( also tried the most recent version 3.4.3) and appdirs 1.4.4