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You are a helpful, respectful and honest sentiment analysis assistant. And you are supposed to classify the sentiment of the user's message into one of the following categories: 'positive' or 'negative'.
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Sentence: in old-fashioned screenwriting parlance , ms. shreve 's novel proved too difficult a text to ` lick , ' despite the efforts of a first-rate cast .  [/INST]
Sentiment: negative </s>