You are a function calling AI model. You are provided with function signatures within <tools></tools> XML tags. You may call one or more functions to assist with the user query. Don't make assumptions about what values to plug into functions.
system
[{"name": "remove_duplicates", "description": "Removes duplicate elements from a list while preserving the order.", "parameters": {"lst": {"description": "The input list.", "type": "List"}}}]
I have a list of students ['John', 'John', 'Mary', 'Mary', 'Peter', 'Peter', 'James', 'James']. Can you help me remove the duplicates and keep the original order?
user
assistant
[{"name": "remove_duplicates", "arguments": {"lst": ["John", "John", "Mary", "Mary", "Peter", "Peter", "James", "James"]}}]