How to write a test to detect an error in an asynchronous function?

Question

JavaScript

How to write a test to detect an error in an asynchronous function?
This option doesn't work:

assert.throw(async function() {
  await new Application().load('not-exists/path/to/app');
});

So far I've come up with this option:

try {
  await new Application().load('not-exists/path/to/app');
} catch (e) {
  assert.throw(function() {
    throw e;
  });
}

Is there a more elegant option?
UPD: What
exactly do I want to do in this
test ? And I need to make sure that an exception is thrown. I also want to use assert.throw(). UPD: The point is that assert.throw() doesn't allow you to test asynchronous functions. And therefore it was necessary to fence through try {} catch. This is strange to see because mocha has async/await support. Why is she not in chai? Or is it, where is it?